Block
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Block currently holds a 3.7 Blind rating from 1,614 reviews. Core product: Imported from companies. Strongest marks: work-life balance and compensation. Recent pulse: 2.9 from 10 reviews in the last 60 days.
- Overall
- 1.48 Amazons
- Recent 60d (10)
- 1.10 Amazons
- Perception
- 1.06 Amazons
- Recent delta
- -0.38 Amazons
- Perception delta
- -0.42 Amazons
- Reviews
- 1,614
- Perception votes
- 14
- Last updated
- May 30, 2026
- Status
- Unknown
Distribution
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Score
1.48 Amazons
Percentile
68th
Companies
221
Peak bin
39
Metric breakdown
Overall rating
Default leaderboard sort, based on the company's Blind score.
Recent 60 days
Average across reviews from the last 60 days, using up to 10 of the latest stored review cards.
Career growth
How employees rate long-term advancement and trajectory.
Compensation / Benefits
The pay and benefits score shown on the company's Blind page.
Management
How employees rate leadership quality and decision-making.
Work life balance
The balance score used when sorting for sustainability.
Company culture
How employees rate the day-to-day environment and team culture.
Public perception
Elo score
1288
Confidence band
+- 126
Public record
10W / 4L
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Latest review list
10 reviews from the last 60 days
1. May 18, 2026
Great people, but stability and direction feel uncertain
3.0Current Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: - Strong and talented coworkers - Good work-life balance and remote-first culture - Interesting fintech products and meaningful technical challenges - Competitive compensation and benefits
Cons: - Repeated layoffs hurt morale and trust - Leadership and management quality feel inconsistent - Strong AI push and organizational changes create uncertainty - Career growth and long-term stability feel less predictable lately
2. May 12, 2026
Too many reorgs and layoffs
3.0Former Employee / Data Scientist
Pros: Teammates - high quality and caliber, helpful team a b
Cons: Too many rounds of reorgs and layoffs, shows poor management
3. May 11, 2026
good wlb
3.0Current Employee / Recruiter
Pros: block was a really good company, great wlb, human first
Cons: the layoffs hit hard and the morale is really down
4. May 7, 2026
Block was a good company
3.0Former Employee / Senior Software Back End Engineer
Pros: Fully remote, pretty good eng culture at the beginning, good amount of accessible tools, talent people
Cons: Leadership changing direction everyday, how it is all AI world
5. May 4, 2026
Pretty good WLB/pay but incompetent leadership
3.0Former Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: - Pay well - Good WLB - Relatively stable infrastructure
Cons: - No body gives a fuck about the products - Leadership is coasting - Lack of ideas for true growth
6. May 4, 2026
okay WLB, poor leadership
2.0Former Employee / Legal Counsel
Pros: okay WLB - ppl generally let you alone nights/weekends and flexible about family needs
Cons: poor leadership - leadership lacks coherent vision and often makes dramatic and sudden shifts in priorities without good reason
7. May 4, 2026
Had good WLB
3.0Former Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: - Great people - Good WLB - Access to many tools
Cons: - Leadership is confused - Technical culture changed a lot
8. May 8, 2026
Management has been a mess, but partly handled since the layoffs in March 2026.
3.0Current Employee / Software Developer
Pros: Salary is okay, good vision of you care about empowerment, cool that it’s trying this concept of “AI” native “builders”, on sites from time-to-time, the people on the ground are generally cool (at least the ones I’ve encountered)
Cons: Leadership/management (do they know what they are doing? Some BU might be better than others), AI overload in a couple of months(?), consistent layoffs (you’ll never been in the same structure for a year, and when it changes the team wil...
9. April 29, 2026
Identity crisis
2.0Former Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: People are good Great compensation, until cliff Remote Good benefits
Cons: Stack ranking + PIP Reorg and change in strategy every 6 months B S performance metrics
10. April 29, 2026
Cool company as Jack says
4.0Former Employee / Designer
Pros: People you work with, interesting products and lots of potential
Cons: Leadership is not good, they are trying to hold onto what they have because they can’t come up with anything innovative anymore. Listening to them is disheartening and leaves everyone realizing that there is not much upside to the future...