Looking forward to the next chapters of the company - User Operations Specialist Stripe Employee Review

4.0
24 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- smart, driven people - clear understanding of how my work impacts my team and the company - clear vision for the future of the company, both for people and business - vast improvements on internal mobility, manager training, and inter-team communications - better growth structure and follow-through on building that out - comp, benefits, leave policies, and work-life balance have all been updated, overhauled, and given clear structure - regular check-in across company on company satisfaction, with updates on initiatives in response to survey results

Cons

- disconnect between belief in culture of transparent communication with solicited feedback and reality of private decision-making without clear feedback solicitation - growth has continued while sections of mobility remain stagnant - lack of effective means to express concerns about poor management without fear of retaliation or with confidence it *will* be addressed

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
4 Jun 2021
Recommend
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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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