Great place to work - Anonymous employee Stripe Employee Review

4.0
2 Nov 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people who work at Stripe are some of the brightest, friendliest and hardest working people I've ever met. I love that departments aren't completely isolated and I get to talk to people from different teams about what challenges they're tackling. As far as leadership goes, John and Patrick have a clear vision for what Stripe will become, and keep employees abreast of decisions and movement. I've been in roles where I've felt left in the dark so this is a welcomed change. One thing Stripe is really great about is internal movement. If you decide a role isn't a great fit for you it's pretty easy to transfer to another department. Oh, and the perks are pretty cushy.

Cons

While leadership is great, there are a select few within the middle management level that could have benefited from some training.

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-Excellent Benefits -Breakfast and lunch everyday -Supportive Management -Great Pay

Cons

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4.0
4 Jun 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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