Stash

Everyone here is humble, helpful, and data driven. Management is experienced and makes decisions based on our tests and analytics so everything we do incrementally increases our KPIs towards the right direction.

Every decision impacts millions of people and we're seen as leaders in the financial revolution by users and the media. Employees with the right initiative and determination have plenty of opportunities to make an impact which management fully supports. Tech debt is seen as an important challenge and priority to tackle as we grow.

There's plenty of collaboration between engineering, product, and design within squads but not so much outside of squads. Overall people here move quickly and get things done while learning on the way.

New WeWork office in the heart of midtown. There are plenty of snacks and drinks that are restocked twice a week.

Growth has been shaky and we've had to incorporate many disruptive workflows and initiatives from people who do not understand our culture and challenges.

There have been recent layoffs and turnover. People definitely burn out here.

Teams are understaffed and people are multi-allocated and some misallocated. Moving targets are the norm and decisions are constantly in flux.

Management doesn't have a clear direction of where the product should be since they want to do literally everything. Be prepared for your work to be totally different and most likely killed a year to six months from now.

Compensation is at market level but not really competitive. No 401k matching. No signing bonus or annual bonus.

Continue to be data driven and hiring superstars. It's really working out.

Try to incorporate middle management more into the daily lives of engineers and designers to understand their problems and come up with ways to address them. They should focus on tackling systemic problems in collaborations WITH squads and chapters not without them. It feels like a constant struggle between doing things right and doing things quickly. It's stressful and divides people.