Is Visa Inc. a good company to work for?

Visa Inc. has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 8,917 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 69% of employees would recommend working at Visa Inc. to a friend and 69% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Visa Inc. have been left by employees working as Intern - Hourly , Software Engineer Intern and Software Engineer(Internship) .

Does Visa Inc. pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Visa Inc. employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Visa Inc.. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Visa Inc.?

69% of Visa Inc. employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Visa Inc. 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Visa Inc.?

Software Engineer (549) , Senior Software Engineer (473) , Director (411) , Staff Software Engineer (195) , Manager (148) , Analyst (133) , Product Manager (117) , Senior Manager (101) , Project Manager (83) , Intern (82) , Vice President (80) , Business Analyst (76) , Software Engineer(Internship) (72) , Business Leader (67) , Senior Business Leader (66)

What are the pros of working at Visa Inc. according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance ( this depends on the position you are at and who you work for)" ((in 981 reviews)); "Good benefits although in recent years they have lowered the standard which for long time employees is difficult." ((in 967 reviews)); "people are great and friendly" ((in 517 reviews)); "Great culture and genuinely some of the smartest individuals I have ever come across" ((in 504 reviews)); "Good pay but not worth your diginity" ((in 337 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Visa Inc. according to real employee reviews?

"i dont want to miss mentioning about two useless managers who are good for nothing as they dont have any control." ((in 221 reviews)); "Senior leadership needs to be more transparent with views and directions" ((in 157 reviews)); "Senior management operates from Foster city so they are not aware of how directors and managers are treating their subordinates." ((in 98 reviews)); "Too much politics; too slow; visa does not move until the whole world has moved first" ((in 73 reviews)); "Frequent layoffs after Manish Mittal joined org" ((in 58 reviews))

What are employees saying about Visa Inc. layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Visa Inc. layoffs and their outlook for job security at Visa Inc. in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Visa Inc. locations?

Foster City , Austin , San Francisco , Miami , Highlands Ranch , Ashburn , Denver , New York , Atlanta , Bellevue , San Mateo , Washington , Lehi , Palo Alto , Los Angeles , San Jose , Seattle , Arlington , San Diego , Owings Mills , Houston , Cleveland , Mentor , Redwood City , South San Francisco , McLean , American Fork , Dallas , Fremont , Baltimore

Visa Inc. reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(7,532 total reviews)

Ryan Mclenerney

67% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

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Visa Inc. has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,532 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Visa Inc. 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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3.0

Apr 6, 2011

A stable place with great work/life balance but rife with incompetent middle managers and politics

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Pros

Pay, benefits, opportunity for international travel and/or interaction with other cultures, opportunity to live in San Francisco and reverse commute, opportunity to work for one of the great business stories of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Cons

Association culture (pre-IPO) is still alive in some pockets. Visa was a place for mediocre people to go and have a comfy 20 year run with minimal effort due to the duopoly with MasterCard. Some association dinosaurs still roam the halls. The association culture bred a level of pettiness and politics I have never seen in any other organization. Meetings after meetings after meetings. You're only one re-org away from working for a horrible person. Payments industry is dull, dull, dull to begin with, but when you layer on aging, mediocre bankers and ex government (Fed) executives who land at Visa to put a cherry on top of their mediocre careers, it becomes not just dull but soul-destroying.

2.0

Apr 5, 2011

Good market position, but slow ro act and react

Anonymous employee

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Pros

A good work life balance is VE's main attraction. Also it has a leading position in the market at present and thus offers opportunities to really get a good grounding in the payments services industry

Cons

The very top management are not great leaders with limited external experience. Any challenge is taken personally and decision making is weak. Association model is reflected internally by slow reaction to market forces with confused vision for the future

2.0

Jan 30, 2011

Exec Management Seems to be getting it

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Visa pays well and has reasonably good benefits. This and the work-life balance encouragement keeps the many gifted creative people from leaving in this era of joblessness.

Cons

The company continues to exist as two entities: 1. Product/Business, 2. Technical/Delivery. Product org is segmented by ... well.. "Product", and Technical is sliced into functional silos. There are "product" teams, but the notion of teams that work together on common Product goals does not extend to the Technical-side. Product tells Technical what it wants and Technical figures out how to piece it together usually taking much longer than it would if technical staff were part of the same team as product staff sharing common goals and deliverables. It's been years since the IPO and Visa is still fundamentally organized the same way.

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