Company details

HEADCOUNT

100-499

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Finance

WEBSITE

http://www.getpliant.com/

About the company

Pliant is a Berlin-headquartered fintech founded in 2020 that builds B2B payment and corporate card products, including app-based card management and an API-first platform for embedded card programmes. The company positions the product around issuing physical and virtual cards, controlling spend, and integrating payment data into finance systems. Pliant operates in multiple countries, with regulated e-money issuance in the EEA via a Finnish entity and UK issuance via a partner setup. Recent growth has been fuelled by venture funding aimed at expansion, including into the US market.

Locations and presence

Pliant is headquartered in Berlin, with corporate entities listed in Berlin plus subsidiaries in Helsinki and Paris. Current hiring and public role listings also point to operational presence across Europe and in cities like London and New York, alongside remote-friendly roles.

Palpable Score

52.8

/ 100

Pliant offers some real entry points through student and part-time finance roles, plus a benefits package that includes learning budget and practical perks that matter early in a career. The biggest limiter is transparency and candidate experience: many roles avoid salary ranges, and public interview feedback is mixed, which drags down fairness and outcomes.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

8.7

/ 20

The company advertises a part-time Finance Assistant role aimed at current students, which is a clear early-career on-ramp rather than a mid-career hire.
Pliant has previously hired Working Student/Intern profiles (for example, Commercial Strategy in Berlin), showing some history of structured junior entry points even if not high volume.
The company’s currently visible open roles skew heavily senior or mid-level (many “(Senior)” and manager titles), which limits day-to-day access for 0–3 year candidates.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

11.5

/ 20

The company routes applications through a consistent ATS flow with a published careers privacy policy and clear location tags (remote, hybrid, city) on the careers page.
Pliant’s publicly reposted job descriptions are unusually specific about day-to-day ownership and expectations (for example, support owning an issue end-to-end and collaborating across Product, Compliance, and Sales).
The company has mixed public candidate sentiment on interview experience, including a notably negative interview account, which lowers confidence in consistently respectful assessment.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

12.8

/ 20

The company explicitly lists a career development and learning budget in the core benefits, which is a concrete support signal that early-career hires can actually use.
Pliant’s role write-ups repeatedly emphasise “exchange of knowledge” and autonomy-with-support, and some postings include practical onboarding exposure (for example, finance work tied to entity setup and international expansion).
The company rarely spells out manager 1:1s, mentorship structures, progression ladders, or a ramp plan inside role descriptions, which caps how confidently a graduate can predict day-one support.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

10.2

/ 20

The company provides stability signals through standard employment benefits and predictable perks (mobility benefit, Wellhub, monthly food allowance, remote options), which helps early-career budgeting.
Pliant frequently uses vague pay language like “attractive remuneration” and many public listings show “salary not provided,” which weakens pay fairness and makes offers harder to evaluate.
The company has some third-party salary data on Glassdoor across multiple job titles, but the sample sizes are small and salary ranges are not consistently shared up front in postings.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

9.6

/ 20

The company has a modest public employee rating and recommendation rate on Glassdoor, suggesting a mixed but not alarm-bell overall employee experience.
Pliant publicly highlights rapid growth and international scaling, which can create opportunity, but this is not the same as showing junior retention, promotions, or structured progression outcomes.
The company’s visible “Junior” job titles in People and Culture roles suggest junior hiring exists, but there’s limited public evidence tracking early-career progression over 12–24 months (promotions, role expansions, or repeat junior hiring in the same function).