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Inside Marshmallow
Marshmallow’s had a makeover

Notice something different around here? We hope so! Let us introduce our new mission, and a brand new look to match.

3 business books that inspired how we work at Marshmallow

Our Head of Fraud, Anna Collier shares a few books that have had a real impact on the way we work at Marshmallow...

How we’re breaking down the barriers around compliance

We’re building the Compliance team of the future. How? Read on to find out...

Why Marshmallow is a great place to jump-start your career

A look at how Marshmallow helps young people take charge of their careers through upskilling.

From A to Series B: Marshmallow is officially a unicorn!

The rumours were true! We’ve raised $85m in our Series B round taking our value to over $1.25bn.

10 questions with Maddy, Claims Team Lead

Meet Maddy - our Claims Team Lead! Here she chats about life at Marshmallow in our newly formed Claims team.

Moving fast and embracing mistakes: A chat with our CTO, David

Our CTO David talks all things tech stack, tech debt and tech culture...

Mental health at Marshmallow

Some of the work we’ve been doing to open up conversations around mental health and to support the wellbeing of our people.

12 quick fire questions with our Chief People Officer, Caroline

Caroline takes part in a quick Q&A, chatting about women in tech, diversity and inclusion, and the joy of building People processes that work for everyone.

Our new data team structure

Find out how we're restructuring our data team to help us become world-class leaders in data analytics.

Meet the first Marshmallowers joining our Budapest office

We chatted to Anna and Gabor, our first ever Marshmallowers in Budapest, about joining the team!

Get to know the women pioneering the insurance industry

We speak to Georgia, Gwen, Lexie and Anna, who all have leading roles across the company, to find out how they're making an impact on everything from design through to fraud protection. 

2 years of data science at Marshmallow!

Data Scientist Rob Gray reflects on his past two years at Marshmallow, helping to scale up the data science team!

How we launched Marshmallow Essential

We chatted to our Group Product Manager, Faris, to hear all about the launch of our cost-saving car insurance plan, Marshmallow Essential.

Women in tech: An open and honest conversation with Marshmallow’s engineers

Marshmallow's engineers discuss the realities of being women in tech.

Meet Pinelopi, Senior Engineer and International Women’s Day role model

A profile of one of our senior engineers, Pinelopi, to celebrate the women helping to transform insurance.

10 questions with Maria, Engineering Manager

Maria discusses the challenges she's most enjoyed solving, including iterating on our hiring process and building teams from scratch.

10 questions with Charlie, Backend Engineer

We ask Charlie 10 quick-fire questions to learn all about his role in the Efficiency team.

Why mentoring is the smartest way to grow frontend engineering teams

Shipping better code, faster. Creating safe spaces where everyone feels empowered... Francesco Leonardi reveals the pros of mentoring in engineering!

Why I’m glad I joined Marshmallow's engineering team

Software engineer Roma Matios reflects on joining Marshmallow's Growth team.

Internal movers: Krishan's career switch from Fraud to Data Analytics

Our Marshmallowers love trying new flavours! We sat down with Krishan to chat about his sideways career move from Fraud to Data Analytics.

10 questions with Chrissie, Fraud Operations Executive

A sneak peek at the life of a Fraud Operations Executive here at Marshmallow!

Our Android 1.0 journey

Android Engineer, Daniele, reveals how we built our android app in just 3 months, all from scratch!

10 questions with Tom, Customer Happiness Executive

What does a Customer Happiness Executive get up to? We sit down with Tom to discover exactly that!

You don't need a STEM degree to be an engineer

Backend Engineer Heather Whyte chats to her fellow Marshmallow engineers about switching careers to pursue engineering - all without a STEM degree.

To Budapest and beyond: Growing our Budapest engineering team

Wondering what life’s like for our engineers in Budapest? 🤔 You’re in luck! Bence, our Engineering Manager over in Budapest, is here to answer all your questions…