Started strong, but is declining rapidly - Software Engineer Stripe Employee Review

2.0
Oct 25, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation Lots of scope for any level of engineer My skills have improved drastically in the relatively short time I've been here.

Cons

PIP quotas destroyed almost all of the goodwill I had for this company. I was able to cope for a while because they weren't actually enforcing the 15% target and cruising at around 8%, but that was dashed with the upcoming cycle. It's an obviously bad policy that's gone poorly for every company that's done it. It's hard to have confidence in leadership when they have many great examples of the damage this policy inflicts and choose to proceed anyway. Work life balance is hit or miss. I've been on three teams, and it was good on two, but awful on the third. This is largely dependent on your management chain's ability to set expectations to leadership. The development loop is a bit of a train wreck. I haven't experienced a single development environment that has a quick feedback loop. It's difficult to stay focused while staring at loading indicators for 30 seconds.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 4, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The work is very high impact and there are lots of opportunities to learn if you're not already familiar with the fintech space. Most of the big projects I've been on so far have been fun to work on. There are also a lot of talented, kind, and helpful engineers at Stripe who are really nice to learn from. I really enjoy my manager and the folks on my team. The money + bonuses are ~ok~. Pretty standard for a pre-IPO unicorn, but the goal is that there will be a big pay off later (fingers crossed).

Cons

- The work life balance is *bad*. For how many products Stripe has, we are a very lean company. Too lean. There's just a lot of work, and very very tight deadlines, very fast paced, and not enough engineers and product managers to do all of it. If you want WLB as an engineer, join an infrastructure team, not a product team. - There is little to no investment in making the engineering org more diverse. This was surprising to me because of a lot of public facing company statements, but don't be fooled like I was. People (at least in the eng org) do not care about diversity. - HR sucks. And of course they would, I guess. But I had a really negative experience with HR where I walked away feeling completely devalued and gaslit. - Dev environments kinda suck and make the work a lot slower than it should be.

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