Square Reviews

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Depending on your team, opportunities for advancement are minimal and the work might not be as interesting.

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Can be faster in decision making.

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Business practices: Square leverages its name to their advantage and to the disadvantage of everyone else. This is manifested in poor compensation for all people outside of engineering and getting out of paying for recruiting and / or sponsorship privileges for their brand. Contractors are treated as second class citizens and must be willing to work for very little pay. Full time roles are advertised as available but I know for a fact there was never headcount to begin with. All this makes the company seem disingenuous as they are constantly trying to convince people that they're the "good guys" in merchant services.

Business health: Cost cutting is apparent throughout the organization (not that this is a bad management style, but it seems to be a signal something more). Sometimes it feels like some people are shoving the proverbial company "kool-aid" down people's throats; I think anyone with a discerning eye knows what's going on.

Working environment: The company is large now so there is a lot of red tape and channel conflict. Be prepared to manoeuvre a highly political environment. Your experience largely depends on your team and manager (like every other corporate) and culture is obviously much less cohesive than at smaller companies. Tricky thing is even if you get onto a great team, I guarantee that team will not stay that way long.

Churn is very high at this company (for many reasons) so don't count on anyone sticking around for very long. 4 months in and you're considered a veteran! Most people come in and realize it's only a stepping stone.

There are lots of intelligent people here; most are not humble. There are also lots of ambitious people here but they're more likely to push you down than help you up.

Expect to work long and hard hours. Don't expect to make friends.

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Growing fast and having many offices around the world have come with challenges. The amount of internal communication can be mind boggling if you don't quickly figure out a system for managing it. If you are the kind of person that needs to know exactly what you'll be working on in two month then Square isn't for you.

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The pace of work is exhausting.

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Transparency of information from upper management.

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Feeling like San Francisco site thinks St. Louis employees are red necks that are below them in knowledge.

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Warning - If you have children, this may not be the company for you. They implement policies that helps them "eliminate" people. Don't let the atmosphere fool you. The policies lack "humanity". The offices in CA and other regions do not utilize the same policies in other cities....beware of that.

Cons

- HR department seemed to be in a constant state of disarray; understaffed, overworked, and lacking the right leadership. Not enough HR support for the company as a result.
- Often in-fighting amongst senior leadership team, causing drama and disruption to work
- CEO split between two jobs (Twitter and Square) meaning decisions took longer than they should, or were caught up in leadership swirl longer than they needed to be.