Wonderful pay, but damaging company culture - Human Resources Stripe Employee Review

2.0
1 June 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Perks, benefits, pay, equity—everything you hear about when you're being recruited is incredible. The company is also full of really intelligent, kind people.

Cons

They expect non-stop work (think 15+ hour days, every day), despite saying they value and encourage work/life balance. Every day even the top performers show up thinking they may get fired. Also the health benefits are misleading if you are using an out of network provider. Many things that are considered "covered" (acupuncture, physical therapy, etc.) have to go through multiple rounds of approvals through a third party provider. I've never experienced this at any other company, especially on a PPO plan. There's also no way to tell ahead time if they are going to put your medical care under scrutiny because everyone at the insurance company says the care is covered and so does the Stripe-provided plan summary. All of my medical providers hate working with the third party (AHS) and some have said they need me to pay fully out of pocket because this administrator is such a headache to work with .

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4.0
4 June 2021
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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 pay off 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 kinda suck and make the work a lot slower than it should be.

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