Adyen NV

Hiring quality verdict.

Adyen's 17% headcount growth in 2025 — from 3,812 to 4,527 — is an unusually clean signal for a public fintech: the company grew headcount only after engineering productivity had already scaled revenue, having over-hired in 2022 and spent 18 months right-sizing before resuming growth from a tighter base. Engineering makes up 41.7% of total headcount and is growing fastest; 46% of global staff are Netherlands-based, with India growing at the highest absolute rate. Co-CEOs Pieter van der Does and Ingo Uytdehaage run a single-platform architecture that eliminates the technology-stack fragmentation typical of competitors built through M&A — a structural advantage engineers cite consistently in retention surveys.