Perfect place for workaholic looking for challenges - Solution Architect Stripe Employee Review

2.0
20 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-People are nice and smart here to work with -Business is thriving with solid product and reputation -Pay is on the upper side of the market with attractive RSU -Awesome transparency and documentation

Cons

-You are expected to work until the bone, weekends work and nighttime calls are expected, definitely not a place to work if you want to have a work-life balance and you have a family, especially for Singapore. High tendency to burn out. -The processes are broken and always changing, since this role is developing, you are expected to wear A LOT of hats and to deliver A LOT of things in a short period of time, without a clear definition of who does what. It is a startup culture in enterprise organisation scale hence expect chaos. -Underinvested and limited career opportunities/development especially for a non-developer or technical role. -The reason people stay is because of RSU. Many people will join here to get the jump in salary and branding in CV for their next opportunity.

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5.0
16 Jun 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

-Excellent Benefits -Breakfast and lunch everyday -Supportive Management -Great Pay

Cons

-Complex Product Suite -Quick ramp up

4.0
4 Jun 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The work is very high impact and there are lots of opportunities to learn if you're not already familiar with the fintech space. Most of the big projects I've been on so far have been fun to work on. There are also a lot of talented, kind, and helpful engineers at Stripe who are really nice to learn from. I really enjoy my manager and the folks on my team. The money + bonuses are ~ok~. Pretty standard for a pre-IPO unicorn, but the goal is that there will be a big pay off later (fingers crossed).

Cons

- The work life balance is *bad*. For how many products Stripe has, we are a very lean company. Too lean. There's just a lot of work, and very very tight deadlines, very fast paced, and not enough engineers and product managers to do all of it. If you want WLB as an engineer, join an infrastructure team, not a product team. - There is little to no investment in making the engineering org more diverse. This was surprising to me because of a lot of public facing company statements, but don't be fooled like I was. People (at least in the eng org) do not care about diversity. - HR sucks. And of course they would, I guess. But I had a really negative experience with HR where I walked away feeling completely devalued and gaslit. - Dev environments kinda suck and make the work a lot slower than it should be.

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