Block Software Developer reviews

3.4

45% would recommend to a friend

(250 total reviews)
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Jack Dorsey

22% approve of CEO

18% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Block with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 250 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Block is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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250 reviews
1.0
Feb 2, 2026

AI Slop Factory

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pays well. Still some cool tech around.

Cons

Some of the worst management in the game. Leadership has become completely obsessed with AI instead of building real products. The project code quality has rotted away completely. Increasingly, nobody knows how anything works. Questions you ask anyone will often prompt a response generated by Claude, because there's less and less domain knowledge on the teams themselves. Management is using number of PRs as the primary engineering performance metric, so the engineering team is churning out absolutely anything they can get merged to boost their personal performance metrics. The engineering team feels driven entirely by the fear of being in the bottom ranks of management's AI generated dashboards. You can't take vacation without it hurting your output performance metrics, either, in my experience. Notable engineering leadership has left, leaving an uninspired talent base generating as much code as possible to save their jobs. This environment is simply no longer capable of inspiring the creativity and problem solving it once had.

3.0
Jan 26, 2026

Constant Layoff

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

WLB, no work to do

Cons

Constantly layoff people, new people joined in few months got laid off as well

2.0
Jan 16, 2026

Company is a downward spiral

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people outside of leadership

Cons

Leadership is incompetent and company culture is getting ruined by introduction of amazon/meta-esque policies

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