Joining Fairway
Do loan officers who leave Fairway come back?
Holly Mattson President of Recruiting, Fairway
Yes — a lot of them. Last year alone, 174 loan originators returned to Fairway after stints at other companies. They left, saw the alternatives up close, and came back. That boomerang number is the proof point I trust more than any pitch, because it is people voting with their licenses.
People ask this one carefully, because what they really want to know is whether the grass is actually greener here or whether it just looks that way from the outside.
The number: 174. That is how many loan originators returned to Fairway last year after working somewhere else. Not new recruits — returning ones.
Why it matters to you. Anyone can be sold on a move. Coming back means someone compared Fairway to a real alternative, with real paychecks and real support teams, and chose Fairway with full information. That is the most honest review a company can get.
What they usually say. The themes I hear on boomerang calls are consistent: the technology and marketing were further ahead than they realized, the operations side was faster, and the culture — employee ownership, the core values, the way leadership shows up — turned out to be rarer than it felt from the inside.
What we do with it. We make it easy to come home. No penalty box, no “you left” attitude. If you are a former Fairway originator reading this, reach out — you already know most of the people you would be talking to.
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