Block Software Developer reviews

3.4

45% would recommend to a friend

(252 total reviews)
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Jack Dorsey

22% approve of CEO

18% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Block with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 252 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Block is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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252 reviews
4.0
Mar 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Strong eng culture and decent WLB although has been getting rougher in recent months.

Cons

Management is in constant churn, hard to buy into a vision that changes every few months. Transparency culture is quickly evaporating and there is a push to inflate metrics like PR throughput which have no real impact on the product.

3.0
Feb 9, 2026

friendly

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very friendly coworkers and good benefits

Cons

Restructure too often. Sometime people feel lost.

1.0
Feb 2, 2026

AI Slop Factory

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pays well. Still some cool tech around.

Cons

Some of the worst management in the game. Leadership has become completely obsessed with AI instead of building real products. The project code quality has rotted away completely. Increasingly, nobody knows how anything works. Questions you ask anyone will often prompt a response generated by Claude, because there's less and less domain knowledge on the teams themselves. Management is using number of PRs as the primary engineering performance metric, so the engineering team is churning out absolutely anything they can get merged to boost their personal performance metrics. The engineering team feels driven entirely by the fear of being in the bottom ranks of management's AI generated dashboards. You can't take vacation without it hurting your output performance metrics, either, in my experience. Notable engineering leadership has left, leaving an uninspired talent base generating as much code as possible to save their jobs. This environment is simply no longer capable of inspiring the creativity and problem solving it once had.

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