Special place - Anonymous employee Stripe Employee Review

5.0
7 Feb 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Incredibly smart and humble co-workers. You work alongside people that are fun to be around but also very, very good at what they do. Investment in development. Stripe does a great job of on-boarding new hires and then providing development opportunities for employees, especially for a company of only 600 or so. The most transparent company I have ever worked at Thoughtful hiring. Everyone here takes hiring very seriously and are always looking for ways to improve the candidate experience and selection process. The business momentum is incredible. You feel as if you are part of something very special and can really make an impact in helping companies create their business. The work space is gorgeous but also very practical. The food team is amazing!

Cons

I don't think it's a con but you need to be prepared to be very hands on. The company is growing quickly and everyone does heavy lifting here.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

The work is very high impact and there are lots of opportunities to learn if you're not already familiar with the fintech space. Most of the big projects I've been on so far have been fun to work on. There are also a lot of talented, kind, and helpful engineers at Stripe who are really nice to learn from. I really enjoy my manager and the folks on my team. The money + bonuses are ~ok~. Pretty standard for a pre-IPO unicorn, but the goal is that there will be a big pay off later (fingers crossed).

Cons

- The work life balance is *bad*. For how many products Stripe has, we are a very lean company. Too lean. There's just a lot of work, and very very tight deadlines, very fast paced, and not enough engineers and product managers to do all of it. If you want WLB as an engineer, join an infrastructure team, not a product team. - There is little to no investment in making the engineering org more diverse. This was surprising to me because of a lot of public facing company statements, but don't be fooled like I was. People (at least in the eng org) do not care about diversity. - HR sucks. And of course they would, I guess. But I had a really negative experience with HR where I walked away feeling completely devalued and gaslit. - Dev environments kinda suck and make the work a lot slower than it should be.

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