Pros: It is a good company if you are just starting out (1-2 YoE). Used it as a stepping stone to gain some experience and leave the moment you get the salary that you deserve.

Cons: I had a 5-star review initially that I deleted to replace with this one. I believed this company was right for me, and it did seem like it in the beginning. But after one year, I found out that we are just numbers. From time to time, the CEO wakes up in the morning and shuts down projects, putting people in the "Competency pool," or simply laying them off. During this one year, there were three rounds of layoffs. You are always anxious about losing your job, regardless of your level. The final straw was their new promotion process, which essentially offers no salary increases except when you get a level promotion (from regular to senior, or from senior to staff). This means that if you are already a senior, you have to be promoted to L4 (staff), a decision approved by the CTO, which is quite difficult to achieve. On top of that, they decided to unify salaries by location, meaning all L2 engineers in Barcelona should have the same salary. It feels like communism. Additionally, salaries are average at best, so if you are experienced, I would recommend avoiding this company.

Pros: People in general are smart and friendly, a good opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies, a good place to gain experience, and an interesting problem space.

Cons: Below market salary, a lot of layoffs recently, and the AI shift was chaotic.

Pros: From a technical perspective, they don't do a bad job, nor a good one either.

Cons: People get fired without warning. The only people that enjoy working at Klarna are managers and the people that want to be managers. Sucking up is everything. They hire a lot of unqualified people in order to pad the teams to justify management positions.