Passionate co-workers who embody company values - Software Engineer Stripe Employee Review

4.0
Feb 9, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- The company is very welcoming and willing to accommodate you working odd hours if you need to - Unlike at larger companies, they don't just pay lip service to what they believe in. Instead it feels like every person you work with at the company is personally invested in the values. - You're given lots of autonomy. Important decisions like company wide goals, are decided by representatives from the entire company, then filter down to smaller tasks to achieve each quarter as decided by teams.

Cons

We're still struggling to grow from a baby company into a full-grown one, with everything that entails - HR processes and management structures are still developing in some areas, and we're still learning how to balance feature work with reliability. This means instability, which can sometimes mean intrusions on personal time for incident response.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

-Excellent Benefits -Breakfast and lunch everyday -Supportive Management -Great Pay

Cons

-Complex Product Suite -Quick ramp up

4.0
Jun 4, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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