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      3.3

      45% would recommend to a friend

      (2,109 total reviews)
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      Jack Dorsey

      32% approve of CEO

      26% positive business outlook

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      Block has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,109 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Block employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      2K reviews
      2.0
      Mar 27, 2015

      Train wreck in progress

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - Great perks, food and environment in the SF office. - Company likes to contribute to open source. - Engineering org is strong (but other orgs are much less strong by comparison). - Products you care about, helping sellers grow.

      Cons

      - Intensely political environment. - Constant re-orgs and management changes, like every month, to the point of being an internal joke. - Scandal central. Every high level manager sleeping with every other high level manager's girlfriend. - Company is run by high functioning alcoholics. You will be expected to DRINK. - Company has wasted hundreds of man years of effort (see Square Wallet, Pay by Name, Square Order, etc.) and now lacks direction. - Payments space is a race to the bottom, competition from PayPal, Amazon etc. is fierce. - Sky-high valuation is not justified by company's fundamentals. - Tech stack is disliked by many engineers and is burdened by years of tech debt mostly accumulated during the Starbucks launch. - High attrition, especially in the remote offices, and very especially in New York (>30%/yr). p.s. most of the glowing reviews here were written by HR

      5.0
      Mar 24, 2015

      Best company I've ever worked for

      Operations
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The team is amazing and I love that I get to learn from people across the organization

      Cons

      Personal growth is up to you to figure out, which can be stressful.

      2.0
      Mar 19, 2015

      Grew too big and has rewarded mediocrity

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - still a fairly transparent company despite the aggressive growth - many small, disruptive products that are performing phenomenally, i.e. Capital - great food, benefits, etc.

      Cons

      - grew way too fast, making tangential acquisitions and not making substantial progress on our core product - still unable to shake the perception that we do more than the "little plastic credit card reader" - feels like working at a slow incumbent, with smaller and more agile competitors carving off pieces of our business they can focus completely on and do better - overinflated valuation ($6B+) that renders stock options of very questionable worth - frivolous spending on ridiculously fancy office space build-outs, expensive food, etc.; not what you want to see as an owner of the company - morale crushed every time a product is spun down, most recently Wallet and Order; not sustainable, and makes everyone question what executive guidance led us down these expensive forays in the first place

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