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    1. 3.0
      Feb 19, 2018
      Customer Support
      Former Employee, more than 1 year
      San Francisco, CA
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      Pros

      - Friendly, intelligent, and diligent colleagues - Free food

      Cons

      - No growth in support. There's very little opportunity to advance into a career outside of the support environment. typically, support is a stepping stone towards other career paths, but there's little to no room for mobility aside from being a support manager or resolution specialist (tackling escalated cases). - Difficult to support other products of Square when they don't have a customer facing team/direct transfer for incoming calls. I.e. Employee Management, Capital, Cash. Supporters are expected to have knowledge of multiple product areas so it does get difficult when there's new features/bugs in the platform/product requests/etc. since there's no clear escalation path in place - The nature of support is 24/7. You are meant to serve the customers and with that in mind, expect to work holidays. When other employees get a week in between Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, you're more than likely working. Though you get to work from home, it's unfortunate having to be locked up in a room taking calls while the rest of your family enjoys the holiday. - Growing pains = culture is difficult to maintain with rapid growth - Little diversity in the certain product areas and it does get cliquey.

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      1. 4.0
        Aug 8, 2016
        Software Engineer
        Current Employee, more than 1 year
        San Francisco, CA
        Recommend
        CEO Approval
        Business Outlook

        Pros

        My coworkers are great. I really enjoy working with my team and we get along very well. Both my manager & his manager were previous engineering leads that worked up to senior positions, which I really like.

        Cons

        Documentation is not the best and there's a lot of 'tribal knowledge'. Some growing pains due to recent expansions, ie. a lot of tools that worked while we were smaller aren't working so well now (work in progress to build new ones though).

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