It's okay. If you "fit In." - Anonymous employee Stripe Employee Review

3.0
3 Feb 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits, some friendly people, treated like a professional

Cons

They don't provide training and development to their team members. Meaning, if people want to go to another department, their manager does not prepare them for it. They get thrown to the wolves to interview and hope it works out. The leadership team and management hasn't considered appreciating current employees by creating an internal mobility program that ACTUALLY helps prepare people for a different job. Promote from within. Make managers truly develop their employees. Start a shadowing program. Also, they are very pretentious with their hiring just like any other young tech company. For example: They want people to jump over the moon to be an account executive. They have a bunch of test and other nonsense, and every department thinks they're super smart, and their job is so challenging when in reality most people can be trained to do these jobs unless it's highly specialized. But forget- because you won't get trained to go into another position. You'd have to quit and come back. But why come back? lol! And yes, you do have to have a certain personality type to get hired.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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