I'm Cassy, I'm an SME credit underwriter .

I'm Sonya and I'm a legal intern at Revolut.

I'm French

I'm British

I'm Ukrainian

When I first learned about Revolut, the company was not that known

But my friend told me about this app, and when I found out what the idea behind it is

I thought immediately it's a win-win. So I applied and I got a job

which was amazing at the time for me.

I've always wanted to work in FinTech.

I wanted to work in a small company

because you get much more responsibilities, and I think

it's much more interesting. You can learn a lot from such an experience and that's what I did

during these last 11 months, I've learned so much more than I would have learned

in a big corporation and I think that people should go for it!

I've always been very passionate about helping SMEs and SMEs have always been

so traditionally underserved by finance and banking institutions so coming to

work at a FinTech meant that there'd be ways that I could use technology to help SMEs

get access to credit and I think Revolut in particular appealed to me because

they're very focused on results and achieving one goal and that really appealed to me.

I think my favourite part about working here is that

when I joined nine months ago it was fairly small. We were still in the

startup phase and it was a bunch of motivated people trying

to work on the best product possible and figuring it out and then we kind of

bloomed from here and it was a little bit like what you said, we were

always covered in the news which is super exciting. My parents were clipping,

like getting all the clippings from all the newspapers and

sending it to me and it's very encouraging to work for a company

where people genuinely like the product and it is constantly

talked about and also I love the people I work with, they're just like a genuine

fun bunch of people and a little bit quirky,

but I love my coworkers.

I think it really suits me. I think I like that

we really are one big team and everyone really is striving for the same

goal and I think as long as you convince that as long as you are a KPI goal driven person

and you're willing to put your all into achieving it I think there's a place for you here

regardless of whether you're a man, you're women

or where you're from, that's all irrelevant.

I think that inevitably, because both the

finance and the technology industries have large gender biases there's inevitably

going to be a disparity in FinTech, but I think the real benefit that fintechs have

is that they're very new institutions and they've got a clean slate

and they can do things right from the beginning and really make steps

early on to alleviate any gender bias there might be.

For Revolut, we're choosing the right people

and it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman

we're choosing the A-players and we're choosing the best people.

I think the real issue is how do we attract the best and most diverse talents

and we're competing with other big tech companies for these best talents

and now that I'm sitting on the people ops side of things

I'm helping the recruiting effort I could see that the talent pool

that we used to work with was not necessarily the most diverse but now

that we got this huge funding round it kind of put us on the map and so we are

able to attract way more applicants which is going to help us scale and

make sure that we have the best and most diverse people.

Yeah, absolutely! One thing I love about Revolut is there's always learning and development

opportunities and sort of want to take everything that comes my way.

I think any learning opportunity is good to take, whichever point in your career you're at

and I there are definitely a lot of new languages that I would personally want

to learn and also, I think it would promote leadership and development

within our company, and that's always good to have.

I think definitely go for it! I think there are so many great fintechs out there

you can definitely find one that suits you. Just be open to all the

learning and development opportunities and definitely connect with people that

can give you mentorship and constructive advice because it'll really have to develop your career.

I think that most big tech companies are

actually now realizing this bias and are looking into ways to kind of bridge that

gap and so they promote a lot of organizations for women who are

interested in the field so it's definitely a great time to join

there are a lot of meetups that you can join or find mentorship opportunities

anything that, if you're interested, will help you can I get exposure to the

industry and make you join.

Go and get it!