Venmo Software Engineer reviews

3.4

25% would recommend to a friend

(12 total reviews)

32% positive business outlook

Reviews by job title

12 reviews
4.0
Jan 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Venmo is a great place. Our office is shiny and new and we get free lunch everyday. I hear we're also looking into getting a yoga studio. We have free food all day, breakfast and lunch and snacks are in constant supply, and every Thursday is cocktail night. Every other Friday we have an open dev day where we can work on anything we want. As engineers, we have retrospectives every month where we discuss things that we like and don't like, and what we say is always taken into account. Because we're still pretty small (honestly, the PayPal buy didn't really affect us much), it's easy for an individual to take an initiative on something and really make an impact with the company.

Cons

All the food is REALLY healthy. I know that's definitely a first-world problem. But sometimes you just want a chocolate or something. Because we're small and we're growing SO much, everyone always has a lot to do. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes it can be a little hectic. There's not too many mentorship opportunities, but I think that's again from lack of people.

5.0
Jan 29, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Let's get free food out of the way first, cause that always makes people happy.. Catered lunch every day that's actually really really good. A mix of catered breakfast, yogurt/granola/fruit/oatmeal, or bagels for breakfast depending on the day. Microkitchen (well really just one big kitchen) of various snacks and beverages. I'm definitely fed well :) Culturally, leadership really cares about everyone who works at Venmo. Your thoughts and opinions always matter and will be taken into account in the decision making process. Whether its big or small, brought up in a 1-1 or a company wide team meeting, they'll listen. Venmo is still small enough where each individual person can still make a large impact by themselves and drive the ideas they want to drive.

Cons

* There are growing pains due to the exponential growth of both scaling Venmo as an app and with head count. * Food tends to be on the healthy side. Sometimes I just really want a Coke. Or ice cream.

5.0
Nov 24, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people are awesome, everyone works hard and is not afraid to challenge the status quo in order to build great products. The user base is growing very quickly, which provides scary but fun engineering challenges and also means morale is typically very high. It's still an exciting phase in the history of the company even though we're now owned by PayPal.

Cons

Some of the technical team early on were inexperienced in terms of writing maintainable, well-unit-tested code and there's still some tech debt to recover from. But I've never seen a startup where this is not the case; if a startup isn't valuing product innovation over clean code in the very beginning they likely won't be around long enough for it to even matter.

Viewing 10 - 12 of 12 Reviews

Glassdoor has 202 Venmo reviews submitted anonymously by Venmo employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Venmo is right for you.