Pros
-Great product diversity -Interesting users working on important challenges -Lots of things to work on and build when a company is growing this fast -Good benefits
Cons
-Almost everyone is rated equally regardless of performance. Top performers are not rewarded. Under the new AVG equity system, the recruiters say that top performers get more equity during your interview. But the truth is, almost nobody is recognized as a top performer. Even when you go above and beyond to excel at your job and do way more than what is asked in your official role, you get an average rating and are told you can't get an above average rating during your first performance review at Stripe. What? -The company values are user first, Stripe second, team third. Employees are last and Stripe makes it clear and known that everyone is replaceable and everyone is the same. If you don't like it, leave and we will find someone else to take your spot. Except the hiring bar has lowered given the overhiring going on right now. I worry about how many people are being hired and not given enough training or support. They are being set up to fail. -Never question the party line. If you dare to have an opinion that differs with leadership, you will be chastised for speaking your mind. There is a culture where you are only allowed to talk about how great Stripe is all the time. Which is ironic given one of our values is "we haven't won yet" but our middle managers act like we have won all the time -When you question why a decision is made, senior leaders will tell you you should be "grateful you work at Stripe". But when a third of your team quits in a 3 month period, they don't seem all that grateful do they? -Sales comp is broken. They lure you in with the high OTE, except they don't tell you about a 2 year ramp curve where it is impossible to meaningfully earn above OTE. By the time you exit ramp, your targets are not achievable by anyone (even top sellers) so you won't even be making your OTE at that point -We have a lack of leadership in the sales org. Managers are in over their head and it shows by the overwhelmingly negative Stripe Sats every quarter (which are ignored) and the significant talent exodus we have seen over the last 6 months. We could copy and paste our internal reviews every 3 months because problems remain unaddressed for years. At a certain point when you don't listen to your people, top performers will leave rather than wait years for you to fix major issues -We are "user first", but aside from sales, most of the company does not talk to users. When the sales team provides user feedback to cross-functional teams, it is either ignored or dismissed. Even when users provide feedback directly to Stripe, they are tossed between 8 different teams and the issues remain unsolved so users churn
