Brex
Large (~1,600)
Lambda
Mid (~500)
Best For
Brex
Best for: Engineers who want to build AI-powered fintech at massive scale with smart colleagues
Lambda
Best for: Professionals interested in Lambda
Ratings
BrexLambda
4.0
3.6
Overall
3.9
3.7
Work-Life Balance
3.8
3.7
Culture & Values
4.0
3.6
Comp & Benefits
3.5
3.4
Senior Mgmt
3.6
3.4
Career Opps
👍 77% Recommend
👤 71% CEO Approval (Pedro Franceschi)
👍 72% Recommend
👤 76% CEO Approval (CEO)
Culture Values
Brex only
🌱 Learning & Growth🪟 Transparent
Lambda only
💎 Strong Comp & Equity
Shared
🚀 Ship Fast & Iterate⚙️ Engineering-Driven🎯 Direct Product Impact
Pros & Cons
Brex
- Innovation-driven culture with incredibly smart, passionate, and supportive colleagues
- Strong benefits and time off actively encouraged with flexible scheduling
- Culture of overworking — many departments understaffed relative to workload expectations
- Multiple rounds of layoffs in recent years have created uncertainty and morale challenges
Lambda
- Building the GPU cloud that powers the world’s top AI labs — genuinely impactful infrastructure
- Smart engineering team with strong technical culture and good WLB on most teams
- Management style described as top-down; strategy clarity could be better
- Internal politics and coordination overhead slow things down for some teams
Bottom Line
Brex
Choose Brex if you want to build AI-powered fintech at massive scale with smart colleagues — but expect intense workloads and some organizational instability from recent layoffs.
Lambda
Lambda — check Glassdoor for detailed reviews.
Open Roles
Brex — 235 jobs
💼 Sales / GTM
72
💻 Engineering
49
📋 Product
18
🎨 Design
15
📣 Marketing
14
👤 HR / People
13
📊 Data
10
⚖️ Legal
6
💰 Finance
3
⚙️ Operations
3
🎧 Support
2
Lambda — 32 jobs
💻 Engineering
14
💰 Finance
6
📋 Product
4
👤 HR / People
2
⚖️ Legal
1
Summary
Brex scores 4.0/5.0 on Glassdoor with a 3.9 work-life balance rating. Lambda scores 3.6/5.0 overall with a 3.7 WLB. That’s a 0.4-point gap on overall satisfaction.
Both companies share these culture values: Ship Fast & Iterate, Engineering-Driven, Direct Product Impact. Brex also emphasizes Learning & Growth, Transparent. Lambda also emphasizes Strong Comp & Equity.
On the hiring front, Brex has 235 open roles and Lambda has 32 open roles.