Klarna

Fast-paced and innovative for a relatively large company, with smart colleagues.

Company culture is almost exclusively built around working, which sounds reasonable since it’s a workplace. But many companies, especially in tech, make sure employees can interact and build relations by hanging out, playing ping pong, grabbing a free beer on a Friday afternoon, and so on. At least in Sweden.

There’s nothing like that at Klarna, and there really isn’t any after work culture either. So relationships with colleagues are very much built exclusively on just working on the same team. For some people this is a pro, and for me it’s kind of boring to spend such a big part of my week with people I only get to know on such a superficial level that a pure “work-relationship” provides.

Also, salaries are not bad, but they are not really on par with where Klarna sees themselves in the market and their expectations of employees. Often comparing themselves with Spotify for example, which has considerably higher comp.