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      3.3

      45% would recommend to a friend

      (2,109 total reviews)
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      Jack Dorsey

      32% approve of CEO

      26% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Block has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,109 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 14, 2022

      … A headache

      Customer success advocate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits, Perks, Co workers, remote

      Cons

      Pay, work load, stats… if you’re in GQ you’re basically everybody in one. They don’t train you for majority of the calls you receive… most is based on common sense and asking your trainers if they’re cool.

      4.0
      Jan 5, 2022

      Nice people, good products, but confused leadership

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      People are always very nice, friendly, and helpful. As an engineer, I have a great work-life-balance. When it comes to delivering on new features, Square's tooling is a bit esoteric but usually gets the job done with minimal waiting (and when it doesn't, the nice/friendly/helpful people I just mentioned will unblock you really fast).

      Cons

      C-Suite leadership makes bizarre decisions (e.g. renaming to Block) that somehow promises to make *them* a lot of money, but doesn't contribute towards better products for users (e.g. Jack's obsession with crypto). There's a mixture of new and pleasant technology, and old legacy stuff that has to continue to be supported. This would not be so bad, except there is a surprising amount of resistance if you decide not to build *new* things with the old legacy technology. "Software architecture" isn't a priority for Block's microservices - so while everything works and individual services have unit tests, creating usable APIs for cross-team boundaries is usually an afterthought that makes it a pain to ever make new connections.

      1.0
      Mar 4, 2021

      Toxic place

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      None that I can think of

      Cons

      Employee showing manipulative behaviors are most favorited and fast tracked to promotion.

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