Pros
- Employees are top tier intellectually - Office is beautiful and offers modest amenities and benefits
Cons
There are two primary problems with this company: 1) It is an engineering-first organization. 2) Leadership lacks the experience to understand what a scaled and mature organization should be modeled after. There is a significant amount of pretentiousness throughout the organization, primarily driven by the promotion of the engineering-first culture. If you are an engineer at Stripe, you may as well call it a day and never find another job because you've made it! Congrats - now everyone can kiss your feet for the rest of your career. Senior leadership is mostly in their late 20s and early 30s. Plenty of years of experience to understand how to scale a business from 10-2500 right? Wrong. Sad to say that leadership is falling to the same trappings as those at Uber and WeWork. Perhaps there's something about being in "control" of your own business that it blinds founders to their own immaturity and Napoleonic tendencies. Stripe has a great story, absolutely - but that superficiality permutes the organization. It's got a great shiny coat on top of everything in the organization, but the underlying character is sadly missing. They have done a fantastic job of hiring the most intelligent and soulless individuals I've ever met.
