TransferWise Reviews

Pros

- Fantastic young, flexible culture to really help you develop (especially coming from a large financial organisation where I was previously) - Fast-paced, quick moving environment which keeps you on your feet with plenty to do. - Lots of opportunity to travel (within reason), which coming from an organisation which used to have travel bans, is so refreshing. - Great opportunity make an impact to actual... customers. The customer is always the mission - and this focus never changes. You feel like you can actually transform a product to help customers. - Really good environment to work in. The office is great, people are super friendly and Friday lunch + drinks in London is great.

Cons

- Very young culture (perhaps if you are older - you may struggle to fit in culturally) - If you like structure, and process - this place isn't for you - No real clarity on career development. Not a deal breaker if you are new, but if you are the type of person who likes to have a long term career plan mapped out, you may struggle.

Advice to Management

More clarity needed around career development. Ensure we keep growing fast whilst keeping things fun.

Pros

Talented colleagues Great mission Challenging stuff to solve Product focused design and development

Cons

Very fast paced Self starters will thrive here

Pros

Autonomous management: you decide what levers to move, you set your own KPIs Young teams, lots of enthusiasm

Cons

Autonomous management: sometimes it's hard to get other teams to cooperate, as they have their own priorities

Pros

Product is really good and with a clear value to customers. People is very honest. Great colleagues. Opportunity to have an impact in whatever you want, it's up to you to decide where your responsibilities end. Most of the projects are challenging and fun. You and your team will prioritise and decide what to do each quarter. Very team oriented, lot of amazing people.

Cons

- Salaries for Software Engineers are bellow average for a Fintech; value added by the engineering work deserves a better compensation. - Not for you if you just want somebody to tell you what to do/build

Pros

- Exciting mission, hard to get from the outside but there are people really committed to make money transfer across countries as easy as possible, instantly and eventually free - Work with talented people to solve hard problems. It's fairly hard to keep up with certain levels of growth but if you are up for challenges it's the right place. - Progression is not about job titles but impact you have on customers.

Cons

- Autonomous teams can be messy but very good fun if is what you looking for. It's not for everyone.

Advice to Management

Keep up the transparent culture and feedback without any filters to solve blocker faster as the company scales.

Pros

- Control of your own destiny - Growing rapidly - Stimulating colleagues - Intellectually challenging - Thoughtful management - Social conscience, mission driven - Global outlook with lots of travel

Cons

- You need to keep an eye on the travel - If you don't want responsibility don't come here

Pros

Has a set of values at the heart of everything that gets done here, open and honest culture, no B/S

Cons

Some travel involved, it's not a traditional place to come and work

Advice to Management

Stick to the mission

Pros

At TransferWise you are given the opportunity to forge your own path, use your initiative and challenge ideas of others. Expect your ideas and decisions to be dissected but always in a constructive way. There is a huge opportunity to learn from the best across many different fields.

Cons

The culture here of autonomy and, some might say, politics can be difficult for some people. Convincing others to buy in to your ideas as they try to push their own can be a challenge. In the end the work produced is of top quality but sometimes you end up discussing what to do for longer than you should.

Advice to Management

Formalise the roles and expectations of leads, and help them balance these against their day job. Streamline some HR processes to make everyone's lives easier. Don't let the culture we have slip!