Pros: + Great peers within my team + Lots of opportunities to learn about payments (specifically card payments) - no one limits your learning except yourself + Given the chance to build products from ideation to GA

Cons: As with any company in a hyper growth phase there can be misalignment across different teams, sudden re-prioritizations of projects and frequent re-orgs. These are not necessarily all bad and are sometimes needed to ensure the best long term outcomes.

Pros: The factors were high growth and customer retention.

Cons: No RSU, no career growth. Middle management took much work focussed

Pros: The list of 'pros' is really long, actually. The basic ones are: - Our office is beautiful, wonderfully situated, easily accessible and stocked with tasty amenities. - Our benefits package(s) seem reasonably good (6% 401k match, standard array of insurance options, (including pet insurance through Trupanion, lol), three weekly catered meals, etc.). - An enjoyable social aspect, including events, happy hours, team outings, and a broad array of interest-specific Slack channels. - A good range of coworker diversity (disclaimer: diversity can always be better) re: age, experience and history range, family-status, etc. The ones which hold more weight are: - Working with great engineers and great managers. - Marqeta is a company of consequence. Every day when I come in, I'm working on things which are blazing the way forward for how the larger payments industry operates. - We have, among the tech org, a cooperative environment. - I am never bored. Every day has new and exciting challenges to work on. - I feel very satisfied with, and supported in, my professional growth at Marqeta. We are supported in learning new skills, approaching problems in new ways, learning new languages.

Cons: - Like many other tech companies, I feel like our hiring process is rough on our applicants as well as on our employees. - Engineering objectives are too driven by the business side. While I feel like my work-life-balance is typically pretty good, I am, and the tech-org generally is, feeling increasing pressure to output.