Have loved my experience here - Anonymous employee Stripe Employee Review

5.0
Nov 2, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People are kind, helpful, nice to be around. There's quite a bit of independence in terms of what you work on and you go about accomplishing it. We're finally getting around to adding some structure within the organization (rolling out levels, we have people in HR and do perf reviews). We've also recently let go of some managers that weren't performing (note: not everyone who has left has done so voluntarily). I have a great manager and get along with her well. I get more feedback from her than any other manger I have to date and it's actually constructive and useful.

Cons

We're growing and nothing is perfect. There are systems and processes that aren't quite there yet, but we're aware of them and make efforts to improve weaknesses. There are some areas of the company which have higher hiring bars than others, there are some teams where the output isn't clear to the org.

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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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