Venmo reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(156 total reviews)

46% positive business outlook

Venmo has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 156 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Venmo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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156 reviews
5.0
Jan 29, 2015
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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
Feb 1, 2014

I loved working here more than anywhere else.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

• Everyone is valued, no matter which team you're on. • Founders are well-grounded and take the time to listen to you • Vibrant, youthful team overflowing with talent (yet still humble and always looking to learn) • Workers are largely self-directed (yet still accountable to peers) • Flat hierarchy and complete transparency across the company. • Can choose SF & NY; can transfer freely • Depending on your team's situation, you may have good travel opportunities (SF<-->NY and recruiting ops) • Catered breakfast and lunch You'll work on something that matters. The college-aged crowd LOVES the product. You'll work with the nicest and most supportive people you'll ever meet.

Cons

• There's some technical debt that could use refactoring. • Writing good tests is hard. Some teams may want you to write tests for the sake of having tests. Would have liked more direction on how to test code effectively. • "Bugs" come at a much higher price than they would at a social network company, so be cautious that you're dealing with money. • Paypal is a large bureaucracy with so-so public reputation. Usually they stay out of the way, but they can be annoying to deal with.

5.0
Nov 24, 2013
Recommend
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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.

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