Great place to work! - Anonymous employee Stripe Employee Review

5.0
Jan 8, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people are smart and opportunities here are amazing. Company decisions are made based on strong core values (stripe is the most transparent company I've worked for). Limited politics. Incredible perks/benefits. Truly excited and proud to come to work each day.

Cons

As with any fast growing company, there are pains. A certain level of flexibility and adaptability are necessary for success and sanity here. Lack of structure in certain areas, but getting better. We could definitely do a better job at rallying our company around the wins of individual teams and celebrating company success as well as promotions a bit more.

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4.0
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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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