Stripe Reviews

Pros

Same as any other company

Cons

I have been working at stripe for three years now and the way staff are treated in order to meet deadlines and finish projects is awful. Stripe stand by this ‘efficiency is leverage’ value which eventually makes everyone a workaholic. Staff are manipulated and gaslighted into working longer hours due to the time difference between SF and Dublin. Staff miss out on big decisions if they dont work late. I have seen people be fired for bogus reasons and women, mothers are resigning because they’re told they’re not ‘committing’ to the job enough. A bunch of people were fired during covid. The most important thing to stripe is making sure the financial partners are happy, at whatever cost

Pros

- Good equity package; - Good company perspectives for the future;

Cons

- No work-life balance: unreasonable targets leading employees to work extra hours on week days and weekends; - Start-up excuse: Stripe has been here for a long time and serves a large range of customers, but the "start-up excuse" is used as a response to understaffed teams and to push people to work beyond their bandwidth capacity to deliver. The company culture is very commercial and sales-centric, with little collaboration between team and people trying to move responsibilities to other, instead of working together to reach a goal; - Autonomy only for good things: you're suppose to "act like an owner" and make business decisions with little guidance. When they work well, there's almost no recognition, but if they don't go as expected, you can be sure there'll be reprehension; - Leadership is not very considerate of people's mental health or personal situations. A lot of new hires that started with messy onboarding and training through COVID are actually facing extended probations or unreasonable expectations on top of failed processes; - Management is not experienced in managing people, offering little guidance and not showing much care for you as an individual; - Not much fun: people are usually nice and you're "expected" to socialize with your co-workers, but usually it's not an enjoyable atmosphere. Interactions seem forced; - Less levels than other tech companies, but much slower to promote. "Meets Expectations" is considered a very strong rating, meaning that you're less likely to be compensated for the extra hours you're putting in and, in the long term, your pay will be smaller if compared to other companies. - Incredibly low diversity, specially international backgrounds in teams that work with global customers. - Lunch menu could improve. No on-site dinner.

Pros

Great people and engineering culture, very competitive compensation, growth opportunities, interesting projects. Before COVID, it was also lots of fun, events, communities and groups, international trips and other things which help you enjoy. Nowadays, the company really supports people during the COVID crisis and tries to keep the community during these difficult times. Really appreciate it!

Cons

Nothing, really. As a growing company, it has some challenges like lack of processes, it is not always clear who owns which part, who should do what; eventually, it is all up to people to organize themselves and surprisingly it works. Sometimes, we're moving too fast and then have to step back or close some gaps in technical debt. But I think the company sees these problems and approaches them extremely efficiently.

Pros

* Promising future * Free meals & drinks

Cons

* Toxic culture. Managers don't know how to manage but enjoy criticizing, threatening, and torturing their direct reports. * Not friendly to software engineers. Communication skills and English language proficiency is more important than anything else.

Pros

Fast growth, quite nice people, good comp.

Cons

Too many company 'priorities', a lot of working to be seen, poor worklife balance.

Pros

*Stripe has a great future and brand, and things should only get better *Incredibly nice and very intelligent people *Thoughtful company, think outside the box *Good benefits *Great opportunity for mobility & upward promotion

Cons

*Still has a 'startup-y' culture which is good in someways but there is still a good bit to fix in terms of tooling & process *Very hardworking atmosphere, everyone always giving 100%, it can be stressful if you don't set your own boundaries *Work to do in terms of diversity in EMEA