Very little you can get out of this company - Anonymous employee Stripe Employee Review

1.0
Mar 23, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Delicious meals, afternoon snacks, some good talent, pretty cool office. Growing...but slowly for a startup. High valuation...that's likely very inflated. Standard equity plan.

Cons

Most everyone stays for the equity, but what people generally don't realize is even with a liquidity event ... realistically not for another 4-7 years ... there is so much dilution that even if you're fully vested your equity will NOT be worth much. Don't count on a big payoff as your sole incentive to stay at the company. You WILL be disappointed. Other than that, there's almost nothing you can get out of Stripe if you've already worked at another tech company in the Valley or elsewhere. Sure, you can treat it as an intellectual exercise and learn something about credit card payments processing, but is that what you really want to spent your time doing?? There are so many interesting companies ... startups or otherwise ... working on amazing projects that it doesn't make any sense to stick with this one.

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4.0
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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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