Stripe San Francisco Reviews

Pros

Really enjoy working here so far

Cons

None that I can think of at this time

Pros

Fast paced, demanding, good people. Clear mission and priorities.

Cons

Incentive to ship individually impacting more complicated cross-functional programs.

Pros

Good people, thoughtful processes and work

Cons

There are not any downsides

Pros

- Challenge work - Competitive wage

Cons

- Culture is getting worse

Pros

Stripe is on a path to take over the world. You'll get to work on large complex problems, that have direct impact for millions of business owners. Seeing your work make the lives easier for the businesses that use Stripe is fulfilling and kept me coming into work every day juiced to solve problems. The bonus is that you'll get to work with some of the smartest people along the way.

Cons

Management has been a low point at Stripe as it has grown, making it difficult to have a consistent experience from one manager to another manager. Need to set boundaries around work life balance, while also getting ready to work very very hard. You will have to be your own advocate to ensure you understand the goals you're striving for, and how to track and achieve them. The size and complexity of Stripe makes it feel quite difficult to ever feel like you truly "know" everything, rather you can know a

Pros

really great coworkers who seem like good people

Cons

competing priorities, constantly putting out fires

Pros

Founders are very smart and connected to their VCs and customers.

Cons

Middle management is struggling with inconsistent performance management guidelines and lack of clear technical direction for rest of the engineering org.

Pros

Stripe is a great employer

Cons

Nothing really to criticize here

Pros

get experience in the FinTech area

Cons

Legal department was not competent in advices regarding immigration status.

Pros

Pay is good and love that I can work from home

Cons

Finance has to use Macs and Google Docs. Throw-you-under-the-bus culture No sense of team Female boss / Middle Management loved to interject herself with little value added and create more work for everyone. 911 urgent work due ASAP every day. Hopefully better now that Dhivya is gone.