Adyen reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(909 total reviews)
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Pieter van der Does

79% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Adyen has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 909 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Adyen employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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909 reviews
2.0
May 1, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Smart people (but many of the best are leaving), great products, respect for work / life balance, food at office, trips to Amsterdam, interesting work with some of the best companies globally

Cons

Adyen commercial leadership in North America is incapable or unwilling to solve a classic problem -- retention of commercial talent. Scores of Adyen talent has hit the job market after lackluster bonuses and pay bumps. Adyen egregiously pays under market norms (base salary for competitor, Stripe for equivalent roles is quite literally 4x what Adyen is willing to pay.) Rather than promote and pay high-performing individual contributors, Adyen has elected to bloat middle management with outsiders. An interesting move considering that all other major tech companies are cutting out middle management and doubling-down on high-performing individual contributors. So in short, at Adyen you can expect to work amongst stars and black holes. Frankly, the best in the market are out of Adyen's pay band, which is a bummer Adyen really does have the makings to be one of "the greats".

1.0
May 14, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Frequent trips and company events Nice product offering with good market reviews There are a lot of amazing individual contributors working at Adyen Relaxed vacation policy

Cons

Take the negative reviews seriously, there's a strong running theme amongst the bad reviews and very apparent once employed. Regardless of which team you join, there is a push to spend your first few weeks doing coffee chats with people at the company. Culture fit is very important for this company, even more so than productivity, if you're not well liked you will not last here. If you're well liked but do no work, you may even be promoted and have a further leash to get away with things. Onboarding sets people up for failure, manager wasn't present at most team meetings or trainings. 1:1s spent in the wrong areas and feedback wasn't actionable. Sales managers are reliant on overseas training to fill the gap. Micromanagement to the point where all emails needed to be prewritten and copy pasted. Unfair, bias reactions of the same behavior from one employee to another. Blatant favoritism. Gossiping even at the management level. Not all managers practice what they preach. Often bad habits are displayed by upper management and learned by newer employee. For example, if the senior members and manager of the team are multi-tasking during meetings, the perception to newer employees is that it's ok. Basically, if they like you, you can get away with murder. If they don't like you, everything is an offense. You will be walking on egg shells because you never know when one thing is suddenly not ok or just a rule that applies to you. Andiamo! Andiamo! Because you're spending too much time building your personal brand vs doing your actual job. For a sales role, there are no metrics. This really means your job security is your relationship with your manager May be a pro or con, but there seems to be more opportunities for horizontal job growth than vertical. Senior members of the organization often complained about salary ceilings

1.0
Jul 13, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Adyen plus benefit and snacks / food in the office. This company is ok with blowing money on culture, so you can likely expect some cool offsites and parties, but it's all just a flex for social media

Cons

USA based management is pretentious and often rude. They have a sink or swim mentality and blatantly play favorites across all departments, people are rewarded because they're well liked and not because they do a good job. They let go of a sales rep who closed deals after a year but kept another sales rep for 2 years, despite him not closing a single deal. It was inconsistent and the manager's feedback are often accusatory, attacking, and not helpful. NO CAREER GROWTH AT ALL PERIOD

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