Clover Reviews

Pros

Great culture and friendly atmosphere. Experienced and hardworking engineers.

Cons

commuting to office is difficult

Pros

Flexibility, catered lunch and dinner, some autonomy within the job

Cons

• Schedules are unknown to Clover, so you never feel like you've done any valuable work. Poor communication between software and hardware product managers, so you often end up getting negative feedback from some hardware PM after a launch because they never had any interaction with marketing. • Management is underwhelming and authoritarian, which is quite odd... • Changes are VERY slow and seems that only "important" people (?) can affect change. • Way too much gossip about petty things

Pros

Benefits (which are steadly disappearing)

Cons

Highschool clique culture, where competence doesn't matter for growth. Several inept managers play games to stop talent from growing, thus securing their position.

Pros

Senior management is great. CEO and COO have earned the respect of staff. The culture is engineering focused with little bureaucracy. For Sunnyvale employees, the health insurance is top notch. Unlimited PTO. It's awesome to see the product in wild at merchants across America.

Cons

Clover wants to play in the same league as big tech, but its parent company is reluctant to make required investments. Open office can be loud and distracting. For some employees, work-from-home means nap-at-home. A few engineering middle managers are technically inept.

Pros

Plenty of opportunity for growth. Interesting product and customer base. Interesting technical stack and problems to solve. Super nice people.

Cons

Growing pains. Need to iron out some things with parent company.

Pros

Some of my co-workers are really smart. There is a high degree of work/life balance.

Cons

Not enough senior devs or accountability to make sure you are completing tasks or learning new skills. If you aren't extremely self motivated or perhaps new to the field in general, you can fall through the cracks. Each engineering manager is managing 20+ people so you can't get any sort of individualized attention, even if you ask directly for guidance. Some co-workers can abuse the lack of accountability to do basically nothing which makes it hard to work with certain people. Since being acquired by Fiserv, there has been a HUGE reduction in benefits. For example, instead of having a winter holiday party last year, they decided to have a conference called 'CloverCon' which was supposed to be in January, then March, then May before it was eventually cancelled. There are obvious reductions in the catered lunch, happy hours, the commuter program and bonuses/promotions. I would be very surprised if more benefits weren't removed in the coming year. Overall, would not recommend working here now unless you are simply interested in collecting a paycheck & not growing your career.