Block reviews

3.3

45% would recommend to a friend

(2,115 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 2,115 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
1.0
May 14, 2018

Soulless.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Perked to the point of being overperked. Wonderful benefits, extremely low employee costs. Beautiful office. Delicious and generous meal options. Prepare to gain weight.

Cons

The NYC office is Millennial culture at its worst. Employees are so indulged, the social pressure is always on to stay late/eat dinner/drink alcohol. Extremely cliquey. If you don't fit their shiny mold, prepare to be snubbed. Work/life balance is non existent. Expect to be tethered to Slack on your phone over the weekend and sending emails until 11pm every night. The talent is apparent at this company, but it's naive to believe that strong individual contributors convert to being even remotely sufficient managers. Egos are out of control here and leadership development is ignored. Expect lots of passive-aggression and micro-management.

4.0
May 2, 2018
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Pros

Excellent people, variety of projects, lots of growth and money, learning opportunities.

Cons

Most teams have a rotating 24-hour on-call duty, which I found intrusive: there were lots of pages that needed attention, and the primary and secondary rotations together lasted two weeks. A lot of the work was similar to Operations, so I found the problems I was solving were not interesting. Also, it turned out that my role involved a lot of cross-team politics. I did not find this out until I started the job and looked at the "eng levels" description.

3.0
Apr 16, 2018

Still growing

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A lot of changes so it keeps you on your toes. It's fast paced and you work with a lot of smart people who care about what they do

Cons

Overthinking things sometimes can lead to frustrating decision processes.

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