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.
