Stripe reviews

3.7

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,332 total reviews)
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Patrick Collison

84% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Stripe has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,332 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Stripe employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
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.

5.0
Aug 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

In the last year, Stripe has really identified areas where there is great room for improvement. Unlike other companies I've worked for, they're actively interested in fixing these issues, and continually refining the approach to people and user issues alike. I am confident that Stripe cares about employees and is willing to address these issues head-on. - continually refined compensation and review process - lots of autonomy in the job - consults employees for changes - adding new resources for manager training, IC training, feedback training, etc. - thoughtful, energetic, rigorously-thinking employee base

Cons

Stripe's culture of transparency isn't fully adapted by managers and very experienced IC's hired in to the company (as opposed to promoted from within), so we should work hard to ensure people adopt and support it. Additionally, there's a lack of clarity around internal mobility. Finally, the promotion process needs additional clarification, especially when moving long-time Stripes to management or other roles that include a promotion - this is something we should publicly celebrate. Stripe has been in a near-constant state of change over the last several years, and this doesn't seem to be slowing down; if you're interested in joining, be ready!

1.0
Aug 14, 2023

STAY AWAY!! unless you want to sell your mental peace for money

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Competitive package and benefits

Cons

- STAY AWAY!! - You are just number, nothing more - Micromanagement - Will always be forced to do more - Little to no work life balance - Expected to work on weekends with out due consideration and compensation - Always over deliver - Zero to no transparency - Decision are made on the fly and employees are expecting to bend backwards to follow them - Forced to return to office

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