Pros
Overall I really enjoyed my time at Stripe. Lots of ERGs that host regular virtual events and lots of great benefits that are easy to use. The pay felt relatively fair and included a great bonus structure. I was part of a layoff that was announced in November 2022, and even the severance offered was generous and really helpful.
Cons
There was this slight feeling of lack of transparency from higher levels of leadership. This meant that sometimes it was hard to know whether or not the work I was doing was worth doing or being done correctly. The most frustrating was being part of a larger project but needing to figure out how to navigate or set up the base of that project because of some of the gatekeeping happening. During the layoff process, though the severance was generous, the communication around some of the details was challenging to get answers to and sometimes took way too long. The other frustrating thing was to see new job openings appear during my final weeks, but I had some surprising difficulty with the timing of interviews to my last day.
