Great place to work - your mileage may vary across teams. - Staff Software Engineer Stripe Employee Review

4.0
Aug 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

There are intelligent people everywhere. They care more about developer experience and friction than many other engineering shops. There are many good problems to solve, and the teams are well-positioned to execute their goals, with mostly adequate resources. Company values and culture are genuine, positive, and largely non-political among the engineering ranks. Many people are not too cynical and believe in personal growth, which leads to a culture of continuous learning and improvement, promotions, and development. The pay and benefits are competitive.

Cons

Tech Stack is a mess - you might not work with the best tools in the industry as the company struggles to maintain the codebase and introduce a modern stack. Management style and techniques - you'll have to live with ambiguity and lack of direction while continuously working on your review reputation to ensure you're perceived to be impactful.

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5.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

great work, great people, great culture:)

Cons

not all intern projects were all that interesting

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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