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Prior to being laid off, I was with nCino for many years, including the IPO. Pre-IPO nCino was a fantastic company with great benefits and plenty of growth opportunities. Post IPO, shareholder value started becoming a consistent theme (unsurprisingly). Since then, stress has increased and there have been annual layoffs, two of which were 7% of the company. The numbers aren't as strong as they were and that stress can be felt by the employees. There is a pivot to AI tooling that felt almost like a "hail Mary" - an act of desperation. Hopefully, it works out for them.
While nCino has, and continues to be, a decent company overall, you should be aware that the culture has shifted to a high-performance, must-deliver mentality. This happened largely when a new CEO took over for Pierre Naude, the founding CEO. Benefits remain strong, but compensation is lower than you might get elsewhere. While the company maintains they are providing compensation competitive with companies of equal size, market segment, and so on, the reality is you aren't limiting a career to companies of that specific size, market segment, etc. so the comparison is flawed. For example, it is pretty normal for folks that leave to other companies to receive a 20-25% increase in pay. 
Another limiting factor is growth opportunities. Promotions, while still occurring, have slowed substantially, with many qualified individuals having to wait numerous promotion cycles to finally get their turn (but have to maintain the performance level during that time to stay in the queue). Even then, many are disappointed by their increased compensation. Annual merit increases are small, typically 3-5 percent. The company will publicly say that raises can reach 10% or more (and they can) but these are absolutely exceptional cases.
In some instances, folks that have been particularly valuable will receive RSUs (4 year vetting), but often in lieu of a higher raise. Bonuses are only available to senior managers or higher.
In summary, nCino is a decent company with good people, benefits and culture, but with lower compensation and higher pressure to perform. Job security is not guaranteed regardless of tenure and performance. It's not what it was and definitely has areas that they could improve upon.

nCino is a fine starting company for individuals interested in working under startup conditions and using the Salesforce platform exclusively.  Staff is young, average age about 23, 
Sprints are demanding and unrelenting.  Salaries are typical for Wilmington NC, but company pays all benefits.  Bank Operating System is core product, which currently is only a LOS for community Banking market that suffers from a manual process for Loan Origination and is desperate for any automation.  Aspire to provide all functions required by banks of increasing size and assets, culminating in adoption by Wall Street, which is unlikely for a variety of reasons.  Emphasis is on sales at the expense of resources, which are largely comprised of local programmers.  Consequently they ride on the fine line of expanding too quickly.  Emphasis is on code development and quick release based on Agile Scrum.  Management is very sharp; nCino is a technology spinoff from Live Oak bank.  They do have solid capitalization.  Stock options are offered with salary.  If you are able to code Apex/JavaScript at full steam, you may find the development environment congenial.  The board of directors and senior management are sharp and executing with a high degree of competence.  A Live Oak Bank spinoff, nCino does not have SME's aside from the board and most of the teams are lacking in business knowledge.  Tickets are usually small scale, which are worked on around the clock and there is usually no time to acquire knowledge of the business or even study to Salesforce Certifications.  Sales team is aggressive in acquiring clients, but the engineering back end as is does not have the sustaining power to keep up with commitments requiring the company to hire consultants if possible; especially as the local market of talented programmers is largely exhausted.  All of these issues are able to be easily remedied; but there appears to be no action to do so.  Lead Architect had just left the company and in conjunction with the newness of the existing staff is very difficult to come up to speed without a process for senior members to convey knowledge.

nCino has a strong mission, vision and set of core values, which are embedded into every facet of the organization. nCino truly lives its values and as a result, has a culture that is unique from any other company I've ever worked for. The CEO and entire Executive Team truly care about their employees and by taking care of them, know that will translate into employees taking care of our customers. It is an extremely collaborative environment and everyone works super hard, supports one another, and also knows how to have fun. The people are what truly make this Company great! 

With any company, there are pros and cons but to be 100% real - nCino is simply an awesome place to work.Things I love about working here...

- empowered and trusted to do my job the right way
- awesome teammates I get to learn from everyday 
- relaxed culture where work/life balance is a priority 
- innovative environment where people are encouraged to share ideas
- 100% med/dent/vis benefits paid for + nCino funds an HSA card for us
- professional and personal development comes with working here 
- challenging work that keeps me motivated 

To give an area we can improve on, salaries are slightly lower but the fact I don't pay for any medical expenses and we get a funded HSA evens it out in my opinion.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Being able to work Remote and the opportunity to meet new people because the door swings quickly here 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The requirement of being a robot and working the same style as the primary person at the time requires and then the next one and so on

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stressful- the ask for honest feedback and then use it back in conversation during one on ones

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Long and busy because your internal and external meetings keep you going and tracking your Smartsheet

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people close to you. Anyone outside your normal work day is probably not going to give you the time of day. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
You never know when they're just going to lay off 5-7% of the company. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Absolutely depends on what team/department you are in. Some seem amazing, some will make you want to quit after onboarding. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Meetings, work, emails about leadership changes for people you will never meet or talk to.

At first glance nCino looks like a great company with a fun culture, but if you aren't seen as the type they want to go have a beer with then you are quickly shunned and treated as an outsider. nCino is great for people of a certain background/economic status/culture, but is not inclusive to people from other walks of life. 
They will promote within in the lower levels but the Executive Team is hired from outside so growth is limited. It's worth noting as well that the entire board of directors as always been all white males

What is the best part of working at the company?
Warmer weather in Wilmington and nice building, treadmill desks

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Leadership with no clue, no strategy, reacting to customers, terrible product 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fake startup culture but really corp

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Back to back meetings, requirement to go into office only to have to find conference room to take zoom call

Typical day is stand up, meetings, and coding work. I learned some about the banking industry. Management could be better - I was hired for a remote position that quickly turn into a on-site and come in every day position. I regret moving for them. The hardest part of the job is knowing if you'll still have one.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There are snacks, I guess. The people are generally nice.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The whole place was overworked and underpaid. Things were always behind. Customers were under informed.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Judgmental if you’re not bought into the “culture”

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