Amazing opportunity with a high growth company - Anonymous employee Coinbase Employee Review

5.0
5 Sept 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-It's a rare opportunity to work for a company like Coinbase that's an industry leader in such a new & high growth space. Truly energizing to come into work everyday knowing we have so much cool stuff to build -Surrounded by super smart and passionate people -Leadership is very transparent and hold weekly 'Ask Me Anything' sessions -From what I've experienced, you get a lot of autonomy to do your job but have leaders readily available to help out -Very conscious of the hiring bar as we continue scaling out teams Long story short this place is awesome. Not often do you get a chance to work on so much greenfield stuff.

Cons

-Like any high growth company there are missteps along the way but leaders are quick to respond and correct course

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5.0
13 May 2026
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Pros

The people are amazing. Some of the smartest I've met and yet also the best to work with. I learned so much from working here.

Cons

High intensity of work (but you also get good rest). Work hard, play hard. Upper management has been making worrying decisions with AI (eg all in with too little of a plan or oversight).

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4.0
6 Aug 2021
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Pros

- Very interesting technical challenges - A LOT of autonomy (could be a con) - Amazing perks (WFH stipend, random gifts all the time) - Very smart colleagues - Great communication all around the company - Exciting - Brilliant CEO and engineering execs - A lot of useful education and automation regarding processes

Cons

- There is a lot of autonomy so if you're the kind of person who needs the work to be handed to you, you'll have to adjust - Since crypto is a very fast paced field, you will often have multiple projects on the go at the same time so work-life balance is usually relatively bad, although the company does offer re-charge days (and weeks) so that we can all take time off. - This is the biggest con: you get assessed if you're "on-track" or "off-track" every quarter, if you're "off-track", you have 60 days to fix it. Quite an aggressive stance, similar to Amazon's PIP program which is notoriously toxic.

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