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      3.3

      45% would recommend to a friend

      (2,108 total reviews)
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      Jack Dorsey

      32% approve of CEO

      26% positive business outlook

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      Block has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,108 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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      2K reviews
      3.0
      Mar 24, 2017

      Perks, but noisy open office

      Anonymous
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Lots of perks, micro kitchens, coffee barista, smoothie, excellent cafeteria, products with meaning for many people.

      Cons

      Square suffers from the snake oil that is the open office. I'm surrounded by constant noise all in the name of the open office. I sit between two conference rooms, multiple desk pods. The SF office is a former data center so that means when people walk by the floor bounces as it is raised floor with carpet on top. There is no noise insulation in the ceiling so you'll hear noise from the above floor. Sales and customer service teams are answering phones with no sound insulation in between desks. Years of complaining to management and facilities has barely gotten anywhere.

      4.0
      Jan 14, 2017

      Good but overrated

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      As a developer specifically, great engineering culture, they actually care about things like testing their code that many startups only give lip service to. Still has a startup-like atmosphere for a pretty old company. Some nice fringe benefits, health/dental/vision 100% lots of cheap-to-free food

      Cons

      Low salaries for a public company, equity compensation for me was equal to about 1 year salary but vesting over 4 years, even including the 25% premium it’s still low for the SF bay area. Required engineers to be on-call, at least on my team, but did not properly compensate. I have never worked anywhere that required engineers to be on-call unless it was shortly after a launch maybe they would be expected to fix their code if it failed catastrophically but not like this. Has only 1/2 a CEO. In an extremely low margin competitive business with no solid plan for turning a profit. it’s the worst kept secret of both Square and Twitter, everyone seems to know it except him and the respective boards. Jack needs to try with one or he will fail with both in my opinion.

      4.0
      Aug 9, 2012

      Fast paced workplace full of nice over achievers working really hard.

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Everyone pursues excellence. - Everyone is masterful at their work. - Everyone is very intelligent and many are over achievers. - Numerous employees have founded companies previously. (Not just Jack!) - Everyone is committed to the success of the company. - Work is highly collaborative. - We felt a collective swell of pride at the Starbucks deal. - Everyone believes we're changing payments for the better. - The work environment is an open, noise filled space. You can find a promo video on squareup.com. - Communications are transparent across all teams. Meeting notes are available to everyone. - The work itself is challenging, fast paced, and frequently changing. - Leadership clearly communicates company goals and performance. - Underperformers are let go. - Confidential information is treated very seriously. - The hiring bar is high and many, many candidates are interviewed and rejected. - Teams joke around a lot, laugh a lot, and party together regularly. - Employee retention is very high. Few people leave. - Most people are upbeat and positive.

      Cons

      - Most employees work intensely for more than 10 hours a day. - 50 to 70 hours a week is normal. - Early stage employees tend to work very, very hard. - There's a culture of workaholism and significant peer pressure to work until "it's done". - Praise for an individual's good work is usually brief. The focus is on the team's success as a whole. - There's hero worship of Square's founders.

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