Block reviews

3.3

45% would recommend to a friend

(2,117 total reviews)
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Jack Dorsey

32% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Block has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,117 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Block employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Oct 27, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

--mission: We have honorable missions--to service our merchants and to make commerce easy. We also have other practices such as “clean street” (where we go out and pick up trashes in the SF city every Friday) and “give a meal” (where we donate lunch money). It feels good to work with such missions in mind. --people: I am very impressed by the executive team. I am always looking forward to the weekly “town square”, where the executive team present visions, execution, results, and lessons learned. --working environment: The SF office is beautiful; meals (three per day) are exceptional; the South Bay office is convenient.

Cons

--engineering team: The engineering team is not very mature, reflected by frequent reorganization and some, IMO, rather arbitrary choices in the technology stack.

5.0
Oct 14, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The company onboarding process is unparalleled. Excited to work in a brand new sales team with extremely talent, intelligent individuals. Room for growth and leadership. Entrepreneurial environment

Cons

The sales team is brand new, still ironing out a lot of kinks and team is changing a lot. Location in SF is not the best.

5.0
Sep 12, 2014

this koolaid tastes amazing!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- culture is honest and open - colleagues are fun, hard working, and ambitious - the work is complex, inspiring, and exciting - leadership team is strong - perks are perfect - plenty of opportunities for mentorship and upward mobility

Cons

- transparency efforts (ex, open Q&A each week, company-wide email threads) can make me really dislike / lose respect for some of my colleagues, but I wouldn't have it any other way honestly.

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