Adyen reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(909 total reviews)
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Pieter van der Does

79% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Adyen has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 909 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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909 reviews
1.0
May 18, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Company has a good brand name. If you work for Adyen people will be impressed. One of the leaders in payments globally, with an amazing client base.

Cons

I've never worked in a company that moves so slowly, with seamingly clueless product leadership as to what goes on in the ground which is slow decline and lack of morale or motivation to work. The view seems to be that if you hire enough senior middle managers from Meta, Google, Uber etc things will move faster. The reality is: - The entire tech stack is not fit for rapid iteration - There is no data analytics function or data ownership/governance, meaning it is very hard to understand what is what - Features and products are not tracked in any way to understand their efficacy, no product analytics function - I have personally seen feature requests from clients that get brought up for over 3 years and never shipped - Multiple products half built and then killed. It is normal for basic UI changes to take 3-6 months to go live. - Meetings often contain 10-15 people in a room with no action items or follow ups seen through. - Engineering leadership is not up to date with the latest trends in AI nor upskilling themselves to modernise the tech stack.

3.0
Jul 28, 2024

From agile to corporate

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- There are still some good people at the company - Work-life balance - Compared to other companies in the Netherlands the pay is not bad

Cons

- Too much bureaucracy - Too many processes - Leadership has no clue what is happening on the ground floor - Many toxic and licking one place people - A lot of mishired middle management - Super slow - HR is against people and only thinks of how to sneakily layoff people (e.g. putting plenty on PIP) - Very political

3.0
Apr 30, 2024

Expect changes

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- The people truly are driven and passionate. It is hard to find that elsewhere. - Lots of travel (Even if you don't like that, it's a nice chance to go abroad) - Solid product

Cons

- Middle management lacking drive and direction - Lack of opportunities for internal movement if you live outside of AMS

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