TransferWise Reviews

Pros

Excellent product, solving a real problem. Tight focus on delivering positive customer impact, with autonomous teams able to work out what their goals and projects will be. The work/life balance is good, with flexibility to work how you need to.

Cons

Autonomous teams have led to a fragmented product experience as new offerings have been added. Management feel uncomfortable about stepping in to forcibly course-correct teams, worrying it will affect the perception of the culture. Salaries and benefits are 20% lower than market (especially for engineers).

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.

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.

Pros

If you're someone that thrives on opportunity to be ambitious, try things and have some autonomy around how you and your team make decisions, TransferWise is perfect. It's fast paced, customer-centric and really pushes you to evolve yourself into someone that can make tough decisions as well as giving and receiving honest feedback. There are over 65 nationalities working at TransferWise, with people from all sorts of backgrounds, cultures and countries, which means that we're all passionate about the product we're building, and bring new perspectives to the table. There's a general understanding that people have lives outside of work - whether that be friendships, families, pets. Teams are supportive and flexible in that respect, with the trust that the impact will be made. It's up to individuals to be responsible for that.

Cons

If you're used to being told what to do and can't work through decisions yourself - you'll struggle. Progression isn't 'linear' in the sense that - you do this thing, jump through this hoop, you'll get a promotion. For me that's actually a pro as you're incentivised to learn and broaden your skillset for real purpose rather than for an artificial goal. However we are still in the point of our company life where we are relatively unstructured about people's development and need to spend more time on this to support people during TransferWise and for life after.