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3.3

44% would recommend to a friend

(406 total reviews)
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Jack Dorsey

32% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

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5.0
Jul 31, 2014

Awesome Place to Work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great culture. Lots of smart and friendly people. Solid benefits including on-site extras. Many difficult, challenging problems to work on. Lots of opportunity to grow and be part of something special with financial upside. I read all of the Glassdoor reviews and Quora comments before joining earlier this year. You need to take them with a large grain of salt as they are limited, older data points. It's a great place if you like to work hard and enjoy delivering results that make a difference.

Cons

Everybody has accepted a less than market compensation to be here. Although, Square does try to make it up with options as do many startups. Minor point - no 401k match is a bummer for savers, but again understandable given the close management of cash.

4.0
Jul 31, 2014

Passion drives the business

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Pros

The company is young, smart and innovative. Everyone is passionate about the brand and what Square does. That is seen in the day to day minutiae and in large scale projects.

Cons

Salary is supplemented by stellar benefits.

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11y
Thanks for your review. We are all so passionate about our mission, and we are thrilled you can feel the energy.
5.0
Jul 28, 2014
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Pros

Move fairly quickly here at work. Solve interesting distributed systems problems. I've been at google, other similar startups, and other non-sfbay companies. Square is my favorite because of the real problems we are solving, the focus on design and building the right thing and helping merchants. The upside if we succeed is very big - everyone in the world does commerce daily - we want to make that better. Worked here a long time as an engineer before trying management. Engineering managers are all engineers, which is a very good sign.

Cons

Salary is lower than google, but that's what you'd expect when you trade equity for cash.

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Block Response
11y
Thanks for your review. We are extremely proud of our engineering managers and our impact on local sellers.
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