how is it like as far as engineering is concerned
It’a a great company. You should join if you want to make big impact in payments
There’s still a lot of cool technology being developed at Square. It’s also a big company with a lot of teams, so do your research before joining a team. If you’re looking for a fast paced, innovative startup feel then take a look at Square Cash. Seller org is much slower and more stable. Infrastructure teams are solid and have some really great engineers. It’s a big company with a lot of options. Meet your team and ask them hard questions. Have these conversations with your recruiter too so that they can match you to the right team. Good luck!
I wish square was still innovative :( also wish we still had Sarah friar.
Agree with FB. No longer innovative. We're spending all our innovation money on Cash at this point. People bicker about politics way too much. No international expansion means that PayPal won.
I joined from faang recently. Innovation tends to by cyclical(look at the iphone). This year was more incremental yes but does not mean there were not exciting product launches: Improved Bitcoin support and bitcoin deposits in cashapp, business banking, cbd, new Items and transactions APIs, ecomm hub, readersdk etc etc. it’s still a fantastic place and engineering talent and challenges are great. Especially in infra
Nit: ReaderSDK was last year
Sorry, I meant https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/sqaure-launches-its-in-app-payments-sdk/
Yep I figured! But I wouldn't call a thin shell of a SDK doing v0.1 of stripe innovation
Note, I did not call app payments sdk innovative. I said innovation is cyclical, this year was incremental for Square and this was one of the exciting product launches we had this year. I don’t get the obsession with innovation, most mid size and larger tech companies have cycles. It’s pretty normal to iterate on successful products. Plus OP question was about engineering. For that I would recommend to look at https://developer.squareup.com/blog/ to gauge our engineering talent
Avoid. They aren’t innovative anymore, employee morale is shot, they’ve raised fees on their customers. Stocks have never recovered from all time high of $100 last year.
I have a square, fees were lowered not raised
If you process less than $66 per txn, you lose a lot more money compared to before fee structure. Many small biz process below $66 per txn.