Square Reviews

Pros

Excellent place to work in

Cons

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Pros

Nice team and good management. Great place to learn new technology.

Cons

Can be faster in decision making.

Pros

Great brand equity in tech and also financial services. Some really nice people but nobody stays long. Very high quality work is produced by this company. Design is always paramount and on point. Awesome coffee.

Cons

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...

Advice to Management

Train people managers. I was witness to some serious HR infractions carried out by managers who just didn't know better.

Pros

It's great getting to work with a very talented team. I love learning something new and getting challenged each and every day. The company is incredibly transparent internally, which is really refreshing. I love building products that empower local merchants. Compared to big tech companies that I've worked at, I feel like Square is a great place where we can win as a team.

Cons

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.

Advice to Management

Stay agile and keep focussing on rapidly delivering innovative solutions.

Pros

- Fantastic leadership team - Company purpose of "Economic Empowerment" is deeply baked into decision-making - Extremely talented and kind coworkers - Constant influx of effusively positive feedback from merchants is great for morale on tough days

Cons

- Engineering productivity sometimes hampered by dependencies on other teams' roadmaps - Mobile CI very short on build machines and is a major productivity bottleneck.

Pros

Events, management, CEO, team, food, benefits

Cons

Internal mobility, location, compensation, some management

Pros

Talented and robust mid-senior/ director level managers, mission-driven, effective strategic alignment

Cons

Unempathetic to individual employees, abrupt and ruthless org changes, sometimes allow bullying by managers

Advice to Management

Good management is not only about customers and product improvement; pay attention to the consequence of strategic alignment on employee's morale

Pros

Good working environment, good cross team collaboration, great queer community.

Cons

Fair amount of re-orgs