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3.3

44% would recommend to a friend

(406 total reviews)
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Jack Dorsey

32% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

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3.0
Sep 7, 2018

Good Perks, Need work on culture

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Pros

- Super flexible time off and work from home days, as well as maternity/ paternity leave. If you have young kids, this company is great for you. - They try to be inclusive of all cultures during holidays. - They're very aware of gender pronouns and try to stand against conventional gender roles. - Managers and executives are very accessible. They work alongside people and stay humble, which sets a nice tone for the company. - Good core values (nominally)

Cons

- Monetary compensation waaay under market value. - Because the company isn't exactly start-up size anymore, it's REALLY hard to move around internally. Not great for people just starting out in their careers who need the flexibility and need to gain a variety of experiences. - Upward mobility is also a battle depending on your team. They prefer to hire externally. - Management is new and inexperienced. - Not great at really understanding where underrepresented people are coming from. There's a lot of explaining you'll have to do to coworkers and managers, since most managers are not part of underrepresented groups. This was probably the most frustrating part. - The company talks a good game about transparency, but I didn't ever feel like I got honest answers when I asked questions.

5.0
Jul 7, 2018

high effort - high reward

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Square is at that point where it's big enough to have unique, hard problems but small enough that many otherwise solved issues (data and ml infra, scaling & resiliency, cloud computing etc) still there for you to work on! Engineering talent on average is great so is the eng culture.

Cons

Square is growing rapidly and some of the older dev infrastructure (deployment, visibility, lang support) needs serious work!

5.0
Mar 21, 2018

enjoying my time so far!

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Square has a great mission! This coupled with hard tech problems and innovative solutions really make Square a unique place to work.

Cons

Square currently does not offer bonuses. Would be great to improve in this area!

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