Pros: The work is very high impact, and there are lots of opportunities to learn if you're not already familiar with the fintech space. Most of the big projects I've been on so far have been fun to work on. There are also a lot of talented, kind, and helpful engineers at Stripe who are really nice to learn from. I really enjoy my manager and the folks on my team. The money + bonuses are ~ok~. Pretty standard for a pre-IPO unicorn, but the goal is that there will be a big payoff later (fingers crossed).

Cons: The work-life balance is bad. For how many products Stripe has, we are a very lean company. Too lean. There's just a lot of work and very, very tight deadlines, very fast-paced, and not enough engineers and product managers to do all of it. If you want WLB as an engineer, join an infrastructure team, not a product team. There is little to no investment in making the engineering org more diverse. This was surprising to me because of a lot of public-facing company statements, but don't be fooled like I was. People (at least in the eng org) do not care about diversity. HR sucks. And of course they would, I guess. But I had a really negative experience with HR where I walked away feeling completely devalued and gaslit. Dev environments kind of suck and make the work a lot slower than it should be.

Pros: The company is successful. They are growing at a fast pace. A lot of smart people are around.

Cons: Depending on your team, if you are based in EMEA, you'll have to work across two time zones.

Pros: A glass door is making me fill this out to see reviews for another job. Stripe had smart people and a product that was obviously doing well.

Cons: Very little work-life balance. Software engineers do a lot of product management because of how complex the product is. Product leadership is poor. They'll regularly throw 400 people at a project only to kill it a year later.