Adyen reviews

3.7

74% would recommend to a friend

(908 total reviews)
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Pieter van der Does

82% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Adyen has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 908 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Adyen employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financeiro industry (3.6 stars).

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908 reviews
2.0
Oct 22, 2023
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Company is at the peak of the payments industry. Great client base. Very nice offices. Great lunch. Board of the company are long timers that grew the company from scratch. They are knowledgeable and well-meaning. Some very dedicated and hard working people especially on the engineering side. These people give their all to the company and are the ones that keep things afloat. Good for juniors. This is a good but extremely chaotic work environment. As a junior if you are willing to learn and take responsibility you will do well.

Cons

Company is like a cult. Most people have drunk the kool aid that is the company's formula and are either juniors from pre-IPO stage or joiners from later on. The smart folk that actually built the company are long gone. No proper vision on the long term of the product : Company wants to be like stripe but actual strategy is in the hands of "strategy development managers" that are hired from outside the industry and cannot tell you in even one sentence what the company does and wishes to do. Lot of red tape and bureaucracy being put in the last few years. Product is disconnected from customers and middle managers set the roadmaps based on what the most pushy sales person tells them to do. Product is lead by middle managers that are all promoted based on the length of their term in the company. These are in-general uninspiring. They tend to promote based on who's their best friend. Most of your colleagues in product will be juniors that are promoted from operational roles. These generally have no understanding of the customer's problems and leave actual value-optimisation in the hands of well meaning but uninformed engineers. This means that overall the value brought by product to customers has been diminishing over time and the company has started to lose it's edge.

3.0
Jun 1, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to work. Challenging but rewarding. Lots of ownership. Amazing coworkers and unlimited vacation.

Cons

Adyen is losing so much of their top talent because they refuse to let employees stay remote and do not want to adapt to a post-pandemic world. Some people here love it, but there is so much pressure to confirm to the “Adyen Culture.” If you do not like it or do not agree, keep your mouth shut. Leadership won’t listen to things that they don’t want to hear. Adyen is unable to face the fact that not everyone loves social events. The last year has been great for growth and for so many employees. But there is so much pressure to embody this ”Adyen Culture.” People feel bad for feeling that way. Adyen is on a downward spiral. To top it all off, they pay like crap.

1.0
Jan 12, 2021

Not a tech company

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Adyen apparently had nice perks when COVID was not around. It was possible to visit other offices around the world, join massive company events and parties, and meet a lot of other fellow expats. Work-life balance is decent, and no one is going to require your presence at a fixed time frame.

Cons

As many other software engineers have mentioned, it is a pain to work as a developer. Every time you need to pull software changes, the IDE is going to re-index the entire code base and you need to re-deploy huge chunks of code even if you changed a single line only, both steps can take up to 40 minutes of your day. When you push your changes, it is very common to wait 2+ hours for the CI/CD pipeline to finish. But the biggest problem of all is how the leadership undermines any initiative to change that scenario, and maintain the bomb of spaghetti code lines that we have . We have a saying that reads "We embrace new technology when it has clear benefits", which it is obviously not the case. For example: people have to fight hard to be allowed to use Mockito. That is correct. Mockito: the simplest mocking framework out there, is not suitable for Adyen, but it's suitable for everyone else, God knows why. And that is only one example out of many others that I could mention, but I will refrain from scaring you any more.

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