Pros
High potential for growth Cool projects to work on Leader in its field Great (in-office) perks Great brand name to get on your resume
Cons
Sales people are treated as the second class citizens of Stripe: - A special equity bonus program was rolled out to the whole company except sales people. Why? We just heard it's "too complicated" to set this up for sales people who are on variable commissions. - You don't get paid on new products you sell. Stripe launches new products all the time. Even though you're expected to learn, promote, and sell these products, you won't get paid until the comp team gets around to figuring this out which could take 6 months or longer. - Very little support offered to closers. AEs are expected to do a lot of their own prospecting. The outbound org is still very undeveloped. - Same goes for post-signed support. No clean breaks. Even if you attach a support package to your deal, you'll find yourself continuing to work with that company well after you close the deal. - You spend less time selling and more time working in tickets given the complexity of deals at Stripe. - Really bad sales incentives compared to other high growth sales organizations. Lengthy commission cycles that lack transparency, little to no spiffs (the few I've seen are paltry), although we did just get accelerators! Hell will freeze over before Stripe offers a Prez Club. The equity bonus program mentioned above was the biggest slap in the face.