Pros: Interesting, impactful work and lots of autonomy. Class-leading product and technology. Lots of growth and excitement. Excellent pay and benefits: compensation aims for 10% over industry-leading tech companies. Great people, smart, humble, and driven co-workers. Brilliant but down-to-earth founders. Good support of remote workers, with about a third of the company outside HQ.

Cons: Still some growing pains and internal organizational difficulties. Not a lot of work-life balance, but it depends on the team. Not much internal management promotion; they tend to prefer outside management.

Pros: You get a lot of smart engineers.

Cons: The tech foundation is not laid out right.

Pros: I've made some of my best friends here. Everyone is capable and comes from different backgrounds, and there's a culture of people helping each other. I've always found it easy to ask others for help; almost everyone was ready to make time to answer questions or give advice about something at work.

Cons: The usual problems with fast-growing startups: there are some organizational growing pains as the company scales. I feel Stripe handles this very conscientiously, though. There are concerted efforts to make sure teams are working well together and reduce the friction that occurs when it's harder to know the entire company. There's slight imposter syndrome here. Because everyone else is so talented and helpful, it's possible to feel that everyone else is way more capable than you. But hires are made very carefully, so a bit of self-confidence will be useful here. There's also a lot going on, and most roles here have to serve as an interface to many different parts of the company, so at times it can feel like there's a lot to juggle.