Quicken Loans

Headquarters: 20555 Victor Parkway
Livonia, MI 48152
Employees: 4,000+
CEO: Bill Emerson
Privately held

Website: http://www.quickenloans.com

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Quicken Loans is one of the nation's leading home loan lenders and the number one mortgage lender onlne. The company closes loans in all 50 states and can process a loan in as little as 15 days.

Quicken is the preferred mortgage lender for several of America's top companies, including AT&T, Google, Yahoo!, Compuware, EDS and Penske. Users can apply for loans online 24 hours a day, seven days a week and check the status of their application online.

The company was formerly part of Intuit, which sells Quicken finance software, but was bought back from Intuit in 2002 by founder Dan Gilbert. The company is privately held.

In 2007, the company closed $19 billion in home loans.

Quicken Loans was named one of the Best Companies to Work For in America by Fortune magazine. The company has also ranked #1 on Computerworld Magazine's list of the "100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology" for three years in a row. Quicken has more than 3,750 workers based in Livonia, Farmington Hills, Auburn Hills and Troy, MI and Cleveland, OH.

History

Dan Gilbert started Michigan-based Rock Financial Corporation in 1985. Within a couple of years the company was on its way to becoming one of the largest mortgage lenders in the country. Along the way, the company joined forces with Title Source, Inc., a title insurance and escrow services company. Thirteen years after Dan founded it, Rock Financial went public.

A little more than a year later, Intuit Inc., makers of the personal financial software Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax, purchased Rock Financial and their online lending site Rockloans.com. The company was renamed Quicken Loans and Dan Gilbert stayed on as chairman.

In July 2002, Gilbert and a group of investors purchased Quicken Loans back from Intuit. The company retained all Quicken Loans branding and marketing initiatives.

Benefits

- Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401k with 75% company match
- Tuition Assistance
- Adoption Assistance
- Paid Parental Leave

The company also offers an on-site ATM and dry-cleaning services, free cappuccino, slushies and popcorn, summer barbeques with live music, concert ticket giveaways and a house band that plays at all-team meetings.

Other perks include:

- 250 hours of intensive industry-leading Mortgage Banker Training
- All inclusive New Hire Orientation for everyone
- On-site computer training - MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Palm Pilot and more
- Mortgage industry training and external training opportunities for all team members
- Live band at monthly meetings
- "Ticket Window Thursday" CEO gives concert tickets away
- Holiday Parties
- Annual Golf Outing
- Barbecues
- Softball Teams

- Refer & Earn programs. Earn extra money for referring friends and family for home financing and career opportunities
- Discounts on housing and home improvements, technology and cell phone providers, retail offers, concert tickets, shows and more
- On-site Toast Masters Club
- Interest Free Home Computer Purchase Loan
- Gym and Internet Connection Reimbursement

Updated February 24, 2008