Wise
What's It Like to Work at Wise?
Wise's Candidate Tradeoffs
If you’re weighing whether Wise is the right fit, these are the core tradeoffs to consider.
- Wise emphasizes accessible, engaged managers who provide regular support and alignment, though that often includes more frequent check-ins and active collaboration.
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What People Are Saying About Wise
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Mission & Purpose: Mission is described as central to day‑to‑day work, with values like “Customers > team > ego” showing up in rituals such as Mission Days and cross‑team forums. Decisions are framed around customer outcomes, with a willingness to iterate quickly based on feedback.
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Autonomy: Teams are portrayed as empowered and “engineering‑first,” with psychological safety, blameless postmortems, and individual input into team decisions. Accountable autonomy enables shipping customer‑visible work quickly with fewer guardrails and high personal ownership.
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Benefits & Perks: Benefits include broad RSUs, paid sabbaticals every four years, generous PTO, and hybrid flexibility. After six months, many roles can work from anywhere for up to 90 days a year, and hubs host company‑wide events that connect offices.
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Wise's Benefits
Company or teams have recognition rituals for individual work
Employee feedback used to shape policies and strategy
Managers give public shoutouts and celebrate employee milestones
Provides resources to build team camaraderie
Quarterly engagement surveys to gauge employee satisfaction
Transparent sharing of company-wide eNPS scores
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
