Great company, be prepared to work really hard - Partnerships Stripe Employee Review

4.0
16 Jan 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Stripe is full of highly intelligent and motivated people. They have excellent hiring processes which means you're surrounded by the best and brightest. In turn this has led to them developing excellent products. They also have an inspiring vision to fundamentally change how payments happen, and in turn delivering more value to businesses.

Cons

60+ hours a week are normal at Stripe. Their view is it's a race and they want to win. The main challenge I saw while working there was the company strategy & bets constantly changed (except core payments). It's important to pivot and be flexible, but the frequency with which Stripe did this means a lot of wasted effort planning and re-planning. The founders are exceptional but some of the other leadership hires weren't great, hence a regular rotation at the L team.

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5.0
3 Jun 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
4 Jun 2021
Recommend
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Business outlook

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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