Great company leadership, but challenging unsupportive environment - Sales Manager Stripe Employee Review

3.0
Jul 30, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The company leadership is topnotch. They understand the market and understand the niche the company is serves in those markets. The vision and rollout of some new product areas are slightly ambitious and choppy, but Stripe continues to be fairly successful despite tech limitations and competing against behemoth payment companies.

Cons

Personally found the leadership to be unsupportive and you are very much on your own to solve problems. In certain segments, there is a lack of mutual ownership despite lots of resources focused on a customers. Tons of turnover have contributed to this and continual hiring has exacerbated this. Lastly, the comp plan was impossible to understand compared to other tech leaders. It was unclear whether you were hitting targets and bonuses were very much based on management discretion. The base salary was competitive, but the targets and accelerators were challenging to achieve.

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5.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 4, 2021
Recommend
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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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