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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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      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.2

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Career opportunities

      2.4

      Senior management

      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
      5.0
      Apr 2, 2015

      Creative, open, fair, exciting, inspiring.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Surrounded by really sharp, design-oriented people. Everybody is open to learn, everybody wants to help the little guys. It's an inspiring place to be.

      Cons

      Sometimes decisions and priorities change, but it's all a part of the process.

      2.0
      Mar 27, 2015

      Train wreck in progress

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Great perks, food and environment in the SF office. - Company likes to contribute to open source. - Engineering org is strong (but other orgs are much less strong by comparison). - Products you care about, helping sellers grow.

      Cons

      - Intensely political environment. - Constant re-orgs and management changes, like every month, to the point of being an internal joke. - Scandal central. Every high level manager sleeping with every other high level manager's girlfriend. - Company is run by high functioning alcoholics. You will be expected to DRINK. - Company has wasted hundreds of man years of effort (see Square Wallet, Pay by Name, Square Order, etc.) and now lacks direction. - Payments space is a race to the bottom, competition from PayPal, Amazon etc. is fierce. - Sky-high valuation is not justified by company's fundamentals. - Tech stack is disliked by many engineers and is burdened by years of tech debt mostly accumulated during the Starbucks launch. - High attrition, especially in the remote offices, and very especially in New York (>30%/yr). p.s. most of the glowing reviews here were written by HR

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