Is Stripe a good company to work for?

Stripe has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 1,516 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has increased by 1% over the last 12 months. 61% of employees would recommend working at Stripe to a friend and 73% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Stripe have been left by employees working as Sales Development Representative (SDR) , Software Engineer(Internship) and SWE Intern .

Does Stripe pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Stripe employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Stripe. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Stripe?

61% of Stripe employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Stripe 3.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Stripe?

Software Engineer (215) , Account Executive (83) , Senior Software Engineer (37) , Program Manager (30) , Sales Development Representative (SDR) (27) , Product Manager (23) , Operations Associate (21) , Software Engineer(Internship) (21) , Recruiter (18) , SWE Intern (16) , Manager (15) , Operations Manager (14) , Data Scientist (12) , Product Support Specialist (12) , Sales (12)

What are the pros of working at Stripe according to real employee reviews?

"+ people are smart and very humble" ((in 208 reviews)); "Great benefits and remote allowed." ((in 139 reviews)); "Colleague are smart" ((in 53 reviews)); "Good compensation (I got SRUs)." ((in 45 reviews)); "Great leadership and product overall" ((in 43 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Stripe according to real employee reviews?

"No work life balance means that teammates don't support each other at all and it's very competitive." ((in 79 reviews)); "Some managers have no experience and are bad at managing" ((in 49 reviews)); "Bad management especially global team" ((in 46 reviews)); "Annual layoffs signal at stack" ((in 21 reviews)); "Hours were long and draining" ((in 20 reviews))

What are employees saying about Stripe layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Stripe layoffs and their outlook for job security at Stripe in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Stripe locations?

San Francisco , New York , Seattle , Chicago , South San Francisco , Los Angeles , Austin , Boston , Atlanta , Washington , Portland , Charlotte , Houston , Mountain View , Oyster Point , Raleigh , San Diego , San Mateo , Denver , Deland , Orlando , Tampa , Jersey City , Mountain Home , St. George , Norfolk , Fairfax , Kansas City , Bozeman , Missoula

Stripe reviews

3.7

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,336 total reviews)

Patrick Collison

84% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

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Stripe has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,336 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

5.0

May 25, 2020

Fun place to work for those who are strongly self-motivated

Business risk analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Stripe is a workplace teeming with brilliant people across all functions, and especially so in technical roles. Thanks to its highly collaborative nature, all of these people are happy and willing to take the time to help teach you and grow. Transparency and clear direction from are also very obviously valued by leadership which makes it easy to understand why and when big things will happen.

Cons

The main downside is that while there are a bevy of bright people and resources available to learn, the fast paced nature of the company can easily leave you behind growth and learning unless you take the time to seize it yourself. Managers are willing to fund and guide towards useful growth opportunities but the time commitment and initiative need to be self-driven.

3.0

May 10, 2020

well-intentioned, but,,,

Education program manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

well-intentioned, innovative, company full of hires you want to work with

Cons

life/emotionally immature and inexperienced leadership

4.0

May 6, 2020

Stellar co-workers and benefits, questionable management and performance philosophy

Operations specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

* Stripe hires great people and you will love your co-workers * Benefits are great, even with pay and stock options not being what they used to be. Especially good for parents or expectant parents. * Great food in their really swanky office(s) * Flexibility for working from home regularly * Lots of self-taught learning opportunities, you'll definitely take on new skill sets

Cons

* No recourse for outright toxic management, to say nothing about mediocre or bad management * No feedback culture, very low scores on employee surveys each year. Umbrella reminders for employees to give each other feedback regularly but no enforcement for management to provide feedback to their reports. * Job expectations are extremely vague and seem to be left that way on purpose * Appear to be doing broad layoffs in preparation for IPO and likely to be able to hire in lower-pay employees, so make sure compensation seems worth it if you are given an offer * Removed unlimited vacation * Expectation that you self-teach skills not listed in your hiring responsibilities in order to "level up," minimal to no training offerings in those areas. Exceptions for technical/programming skills - skills like project management etc. are expected to be self-taught with absolutely zero guidance. * Basically no upward mobility, though parallel mobility is accessible to some. * Work/Life balance is only achievable if you are okay with mediocre performance reviews and the consequences thereof. Unspoken requirement to run yourself ragged if you want to get good performance reviews, though also apparently no actual way/route to ever meet standards for highest "levels" of performance. Top performers seem to burn out and need to take medical leave after a couple of years, for which they're often penalized, yet never meet highest performance levels according to performance reviews.

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