Wise
What's It Like to Work at Wise?
Wise Employee Reviews
What People Are Saying About Wise
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Mission & Purpose: Work is frequently framed around making cross‑border money movement fast, transparent, and fair, and teams tie backlogs to customer impact. Feedback suggests this clear purpose energizes day‑to‑day work and aligns decisions across functions.
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Autonomy: Product and engineering operate in autonomous, customer‑centric squads with bottom‑up decisions and a bias to ship quickly. Feedback suggests this ownership model enables faster iteration and meaningful end‑to‑end responsibility.
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Benefits & Perks: Broad perks include company‑wide equity grants, a paid sabbatical, flexible hybrid work with the option to work abroad for limited periods, and hub‑based collaboration. Feedback suggests these benefits support flexibility, belonging, and longer‑term alignment.
Wise's Benefits
Promote from within
Provides customized development tracks
Engineering team utilizes pair programming
Hosts in-person all-hands meetings
We have in-person team calls, live streamed across our global offices every two weeks, as well as quarterly planning sessions and our regular Mission Days global events.
Implements team-based strategic planning
Open office floor plan to encourage communication and collaboration
Uses an OKR operational model to clearly define goals and priorities
Utilizes an open door policy that encourages accessibility
Offers a remote work program
After your first 6 months, most people can work virtually from (almost) anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year.
Utilizes a flexible work schedule
We expect that new joiners will be in the office most days to build connections for their first six months. After that we see most Wisers split their working week between the office and home.
Utilizes a hybrid work model
