Stripe Reviews

* No recourse for outright toxic management, to say nothing about mediocre or bad management * No feedback culture, very low scores on employee surveys each year. Umbrella reminders for employees to give each other feedback regularly but no enforcement for management to provide feedback to their reports. * Job expectations are extremely vague and seem to be left that way on purpose * Appear to be doing broad layoffs in preparation for IPO and likely to be able to hire in lower-pay employees, so make sure compensation seems worth it if you are given an offer * Removed unlimited vacation * Expectation that you self-teach skills not listed in your hiring responsibilities in order to "level up," minimal to no training offerings in those areas. Exceptions for technical/programming skills - skills like project management etc. are expected to be self-taught with absolutely zero guidance. * Basically no upward mobility, though parallel mobility is accessible to some. * Work/Life balance is only achievable if you are okay with mediocre performance reviews and the consequences thereof. Unspoken requirement to run yourself ragged if you want to get good performance reviews, though also apparently no actual way/route to ever meet standards for highest "levels" of performance. Top performers seem to burn out and need to take medical leave after a couple of years, for which they're often penalized, yet never meet highest performance levels according to performance reviews.

No true sense of culture. Most of the people they're hiring now are likely joining mainly because they want a big pay out in the first year. Yes Stripe pays very well but that's because they're losing really good people who actually care about other people and have a sense of empathy. Their new comp structure and AVG (annual value grant) means that you will only get the most of out your comp in the first year BUT also means that it's going to be very competitive when it comes to performance. You have to basically dedicate your entire life to work in order to get a good performance rating. They try to sell this as "we pay for performance and reward good work." True, but that means you will have NO work life balance. No work life balance means that teammates don't support each other at all and it's very competitive. There's a TON of processes and hoops to jump through and many layers of people to get through in order to get anything done. It was really tough to see how one could make any significant impact, unless you'd already been there for 3+ years. Managers are overworked too so you really don't get much support from them either. Be prepared to be very isolated and work a ton if you want to join Stripe... For me, no amount of money in the world was worth that. Stripe is too much of a big machine now.