Pros
Amazing benefits. Competitive pay. Thorough onboarding. Fast pace means things happen quickly. Company is wide open to hearing new ideas for growth. People hired by Stripe are intelligent, so it's a good place to learn and grow.
Cons
Cringy indoctrination process (onboarding includes various group training sessions that open like motivational seminars led by wide-eyed hipster types who say things like "alright Stripes, who's hyped to talk about infosec??" over a soundtrack of dated, light EDM tracks). Watch any Tony Robbins intro for an example. They like to talk a big game about work/life balance, but peers don't support each other and it's toxically competitive; even people with nothing to gain from undermining you might stab you in the back, which means you spend a lot of time watching your back instead of doing your work. Bad management on various levels, the worst being: management struggles to provide clarity around orgs' true goals and tends to fall back on threatening vs coaching other managers. Middle managers are overburdened and don't have time to focus on the people management aspects of their roles. Don't get me started on the sappy branded playlists, of which there are many.