Startup vibe in an established company - Best of both worlds - Anonymous employee Adyen Employee Review

5.0
27 Mar 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This review is mostly specific to the New York office, but I've got only awesome things to say about the company overall. I work with such an amazing group of hardworking, supportive individuals in the NY office. I've worked at several other companies in New York, and I've never felt so at home. From my first day, everyone made me feel welcome and appreciated. Adyen is a global company with 700+ employees, but the New York team only has 20+ people and really feels like a family. We have the support of departments and teams all over the world, but we're also able to walk over and chat with every coworker in the office easily. We're in a brand new office near Union Square with a roof deck, and they've done a great job of making the office a fun space to work in (shout out to our kombucha/cold brew coffee kegerator!). We have monthly updates with Amsterdam HQ, and frequent catchups with our other US office in San Francisco. We even travel out to SF 3x a year to bring the entire US team together for workshops/speaker events/team outings. Each new employee gets to travel to Amsterdam for onboarding, and we have a full-company retreat in the Netherlands every year. The company prioritizes communication and collaboration, from the top down, and it really shows.

Cons

There can be some lag between offices when it comes to email responses and follow ups, but that's the norm with any international company. Since New York is in between our SF and Amsterdam offices, we have time in the morning to catch up with Europe, and time in the afternoon to see what SF is up to. Since we're a smaller team in NY, we're not as structured as some of the larger offices. Employees have a lot of autonomy, and are responsible for their own success. For me, that's a huge plus, but it may be negative for people who need more day-to-day support. The larger offices have more departments and structure built in, which I'm sure NY will have as it grows.

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Cons

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2.0
28 Apr 2026
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Pros

Office - the offices are some of the nicest offices I’ve worked in. Barista on site and pretty good lunch every day. Travel - there is an annual trip to Amsterdam and you can travel through Europe from that. PTO - European time off mindset. You’re able to take a fair amount of time off. Some people - there are some really smart, caring, hardworking people but unfortunately they aren’t in leadership positions. Product - it’s fun to work on the product while it’s still evolving

Cons

Leadership - some leaders were there at the right place/right time and the lack of leadership experience is evident. They pawn career growth off entirely onto their reports and their ego gets hurt when their leadership is questioned or feedback is given that they should own more. Instead of taking that feedback, they hand over even more “leadership” tasks to individuals. They barely understand the day to day of their peers and are consistently questioned about what they do. If leaders were having an impact on their reports, there wouldn’t be these questions. It’s better to not voice concerns to your lead cause then you’ll just be on their troublemaker list. Toxic culture - if high school like cliquey culture is your thing, Adyen is for you. There’s a weird gossipy vibe for some teams globally. Along with that, there were times harassment and bullying from leadership was condoned. The heavy drinking culture lead to a number of times things got out of hand and lead to people being put into situations they shouldn’t have had to deal with. Then those same leads were given additional chances to continue the behavior till it cost money. If you see something, it’s better to stay quiet than speak up cause then you will have a target on you. Team members are too afraid to actually voice concerns. Pay - Pay can start pretty good but once you’re in, the pay increases are minimal. Options were a joke compared to previous employers. They want people to work there for “the right reasons” but you can compete a bit more on pay. Growth opportunities - there used to be more of a culture to try new roles and go back which was a positive. More recently, growth opportunities are limited and it’s more of a vibe versus tangible impact. You can bring evidence of work but if the you’re not more extroverted or have more of a pick me energy, you likely won’t move up at Adyen. This can be team specific so ask how growth decisions are made within that team. Leadership doesn’t really have an answer on how these things are measured and just get angry if you ask about it. If you want to coast, this would be the spot for you. Numerous people on the team would comment about working too hard and they were right. Product - stop breaking things with product and make operations pick up the slack.

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