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      3.4

      44% would recommend to a friend

      (252 total reviews)
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      Jack Dorsey

      22% approve of CEO

      17% positive business outlook

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      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
      5.0
      Jun 16, 2017

      Software Engineer

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Caring, transparent, cooperative team culture - Smart, driven, and social co-workers - Good mentorship from coworkers for new / recent grads - Every team's work is crucial to the mission of making commerce easy - Applications here are high availability, deployed frequently, and reach a broad audience - Flexible work hours with unlimited PTO - Frequent office off-sites to events such as movies, go-karting, escape the room - Weekly happy hour / social - Teammates genuinely care and go above and beyond to support one another, personally and professionally

      Cons

      - Company has a liberal culture, which has a lot of pros and some cons

      5.0
      Jun 16, 2017

      High quality technology engineering, in Atlanta

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fantastic people. Empowering mission. Incentives aligned with our customers. Friendly office. Great corporate culture. It's hard to find Silicon-Valley quality engineering teams at technology-first companies in Atlanta. Square's little office here is a rare find.

      Cons

      Daily free lunch sometimes lacks interesting vegan options.

      4.0
      Jan 14, 2017

      Good but overrated

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      As a developer specifically, great engineering culture, they actually care about things like testing their code that many startups only give lip service to. Still has a startup-like atmosphere for a pretty old company. Some nice fringe benefits, health/dental/vision 100% lots of cheap-to-free food

      Cons

      Low salaries for a public company, equity compensation for me was equal to about 1 year salary but vesting over 4 years, even including the 25% premium it’s still low for the SF bay area. Required engineers to be on-call, at least on my team, but did not properly compensate. I have never worked anywhere that required engineers to be on-call unless it was shortly after a launch maybe they would be expected to fix their code if it failed catastrophically but not like this. Has only 1/2 a CEO. In an extremely low margin competitive business with no solid plan for turning a profit. it’s the worst kept secret of both Square and Twitter, everyone seems to know it except him and the respective boards. Jack needs to try with one or he will fail with both in my opinion.

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