Block Software Developer reviews

3.4

45% would recommend to a friend

(251 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 251 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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251 reviews
2.0
Jun 2, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great WLB. - Good pay. - Good benefits. - Nice mission (if we actually paid attention to it).

Cons

- Company had a soul, it's lost now. - Reorg after reorg, but only in the lower levels. - As the title says, "leadership principled" managers are here now. Incompetent people that can't write a freaking test stay because they play the politics game. The more vocal, passionate engineers are rated below expectations because those FAANG managers have an ego. - Company moves like a handicapped turtle, so the competition is eating our lunch. - Sometimes the focus is music, sometimes the focus is crypto, and sometime it's AI. Square and Cash App lag behind while those other get sorted out.

5.0
Apr 30, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly culture Good place to join as a new grad and learn. Lots of support and process since it's a large company. I was at Block for 5 years, and I had a great experience for 3.5 of those years, until I joined one of their more fringe divisions which was very poorly run.

Cons

Bureaucratic. This seems to be changing when I left in 2024. A lot of middle manager types were culled.

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