Stripe reviews

3.7

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,334 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 1,334 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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2.0
May 25, 2023

Stripe is not a company for nice people

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The benefits at Stripe are amazing. Home office allocation, education benefit, great medical/dental.

Cons

You cannot have an opinion. If you want to debate or discuss something, you will have a target on your back. Your job will not be safe during maternity leave. You will either come back to have to find a new job, or you will be immediately laid off because you are "redundant". Obscene working hour expectations. Expected to meet in US, EMEA, and APAC hours, often within a single day Your workload, your projects, and your priorities are always at the whim of whatever triggers John and Patrick's recent interest. You will constantly hear "drop everything, this is Patrick's TOP PRIORITY" on even the most minor of issues You will be expected to fill in for positions that you are not paid for. Even on rotation you are often doing a more complex job for your same pay. When on rotation, your team is not given a backfill for your role, so they are left hurting. Your base+bonus looks great until you realize that Stripe has targets for how many people can "Exceed Expectations". Given that Stripe hires such high caliber people, getting a "meets" is a challenge. Managers will downtier people based on their targets for how many people can be in each review category, often for arbitrary reasons. Stripe constantly lays off people only to rehire in India, at a massive cost savings. Nothing is done with the results of Stripe Sat surveys. You will be expected to be on call but not compensated for it You may go through up to 10 rounds of interviews on an amazing candidate, only to have them rejected because they didn't pass the esoteric uplevel interview.

1.0
Apr 22, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Most valuable private company Smart peers Mission to change the world

Cons

Tough culture: 0 focus on D&I Smoky mirrors with leveling Will let you go before 1st year stock vests for any random reason Very political and insecure bosses You are better off at a FANG company

2.0
Feb 15, 2022

Is it worth the crippling stress?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay is great, the benefits are good.

Cons

It's an operational mess behind the curtain, filling approved headcount takes months upon months, everyone is drowning.

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