Block reviews

Too much toxic gossip, indirect feedback and "mean girl" energy on the Administrative Assistant / Executive Assistant / EO Team. There's a deep rooted lack of professional safety and emotional stability. No development. Lack of appreciation, recognition and rewards. Stock price sucks. The Legal Team and the People Team are barely surviving. Most employees are absolutely miserable and talk about it all the time. The current EO team won't say it, but I will.....this team is overpaid compared to much more complex and taxing roles at the company. I don't see how it could get worse.

Jack literally disappeared from leadership for like a year during the pandemic then it seemed like he came back, hated how the senior leaders were running the company, and caused quite a stir / made aggressive changes that would’ve been less aggressive had he stuck around all along / not disappeared Many Square & Cash App customers absolutely hate their experiences with the product… A lot of Cash App customers get scammed out of money and experience 0 recourse (it’s happened to me and friends). Teams were constantly combatting burnout because the culture of working at Block is to work all day & night. Constant internal reorganizations and acquisitions made for an unnecessarily complex work environment. Working at Block is like playing a constant game of “Who’s on first?” & like the Spider-Man meme where they’re all pointing at each other. Executives were either great leaders or absolutely horrible. I worked with a few horrible ones. Insane amount of middle management layers. Gossip was a mainstay especially within Executive Operations. Very easy to fall out of someone’s good graces. Proximity bias is alive & well especially in Exec Ops (i.e. if you go into the offices and pretended to be happy to grab lunches then that catapulted you in the eyes of the leads). People would outright say how they gamed this system for advancement. Very easy to get trapped in your level and/or your role (company-wide issue) Extreme & unchecked pandemic hiring sent the company into equally extreme layoffs There is an illusion of transparency