Pros: Wonderful manager who understood people on the team and genuinely cared about them. Absolute best part of the summer. Got to have the full software engineer experience, doing code reviews, pushing PRs for the first time. Great feeling empowering small businesses.

Cons: There are a LOT of cons with the internship program. The recruiters didn’t make much of an effort to accommodate us remotely other than keep our housing stipend, which was then slashed in half. Then, we were only given our housing stipend biweekly because “what if an intern decided to quit midway through,” making it incredibly hard to afford rent. If you're wondering, it was $1000 a MONTH before tax so ~$600 after tax, barely anything to survive on. When asked if we could get a sweatshirt, one of the interns had to personally spend time out of their workday creating it and trying to secure funds for us because the recruiters didn't and weren't willing to. Hack Week also showed me how backwards Square’s priorities were: we created an app that everyone outside the company considered incredibly groundbreaking and useful, and the judges didn't even give us the time of day. Overall, I was incredibly unsatisfied with the intern program and I strongly discourage you from being an intern. Oh, and this was all while Square was rebounding after the COVID crash (stock price was rising so quickly) and there was no need for them to cut corners anymore, but still essentially no budget for making the intern program meaningful at all. Very bad experience with the intern program, highly suggest avoiding.

Pros: Square is a great place to work if you are a new-grad or just starting out in your career. There are a lot of great people to work with, and you can see a lot of interesting work. * Work with fantastic people at your peer level. You have made some great friends here. * The engineering culture is really good; no-ego problem-solving is mandatory across the company. * One of the few opportunities to build something that is impactful for everyday people trying to make an honest living. People are connected to the mission of helping the small business down the street. * A truly full-stack company. You can learn so much on the engineering side.

Cons: - Design culture is awful. ICs are great, but their management structure is incredibly top-down and not iterative. They hamstring product teams and slow everything down. - Lack of focus everywhere. Constant reorgs and lots of abandoned projects make it hard to scale your team or your work. - Leadership provides no clear strategy. We are just doing lots of things, attacking lots of opportunities.

Pros: Work-life balance is great, as well as the remote work policy. The transfer process is quick and easy when moving to different locations.

Cons: Not much. I have only recently started here.