Main Takeaways
Working at Binance isn’t for everyone. This article is an honest take on what it feels like to work in a high-bar, high-tempo environment built around our five core values.
Our values show up in our work daily: protecting users, reducing friction, staying fast and autonomous, taking direct feedback, and collaborating globally without bloated meetings.
If this pace energizes you, read on to understand how we work and what we expect, then explore open roles on our careers page.
If you’re looking for a predictable routine, comfortable certainty, and a job that stays neatly inside the lines, this is your sign to close the tab. Binance is a high-performance, results-driven place where ownership is real and execution speed matters. While it may appeal to some, it may be the deal-breaker for others.
Still here? Below are five reasons you might not want to join Binance, each tied to a core value – and each a feature if you are the kind of builder who thrives here. For a quick peek, hit play on our culture video below to see it in motion.
Freedom: Not Your Typical 9-5
Since Binance is global and remote-first, adapting time zones are part of the job. If you love neat calendars, predictable hours, and everyone online at the same time, this will test your patience and your planning skills.
But here’s the fun part: “Freedom” at Binance is real. You’re trusted to manage your schedule and your output, which means you can build a rhythm that actually fits your life. Some days run long, some hours are weird, and sometimes, that’s exactly what makes it great.
If you are a night owl, you can build your rhythm around it. If you want to hit the gym at 2pm and enjoy an empty pilates class, go for it. When you see a cheap flight home on a Monday instead of a Sunday, take it. The point isn’t “always on,” it’s high trust: you own your time, your outcomes, and your impact.
If you want rigid structure handed to you, this will feel chaotic. If you want autonomy and can handle the accountability that comes with it, it’s hard to beat.
Humility: Feedback is Part of the Job
At Binance, you’re trusted to take ownership and make calls without someone hovering over your shoulder. The catch is you’re also seriously accountable. From the outside, that can look intense: you’ll own complex work, escalate messy issues, coordinate decisions across teams, and stay open to feedback even when it’s a little humbling.
If you need feedback to be gentle, indirect, or wrapped in a compliment sandwich, you’ll struggle. Sometimes you’ll get a message that basically says, “Not good enough yet.” Sometimes someone more junior will spot your mistake, in a group chat, with receipts. If your default mode is defensiveness, Binance will be a frustrating place to be.
Humility here is practical: take a breath, say “good catch,” fix it, and ship the better version. You don’t point fingers or blame the process, or treat disagreement like drama.
While it can be uncomfortable, it can also be a turning point. You can get better fast when you stop spending energy protecting your pride and start spending it to improve the work at hand.
Collaboration: Less Hierarchy, More Momentum
Binance isn’t a top-down place where decisions wait politely for titles to weigh in. Teams are empowered, adaptable, and expected to move fast. So if you rely on strict chains of command, or you’re used to alignment coming from seniority rather than results, our flat hierarchy will feel unfamiliar.
Collaboration here is straightforward: shared goals, honest communication, and a bias toward action, often asynchronous. Speed at this scale comes from being direct, making clear inquiries, giving the right context, and pulling in the right people at the right moment.
In practice, it looks like this: you ask, provide context, and follow up fast until it’s resolved. Instead of dragging half the organization into a meeting to “align,” you’re expected to write things down, make decisions visible, and move the work forward in a way others can build on. In an asynchronous environment, trust is built through follow-through. Even if you have never met a teammate in person, you’ll feel the strength of collaboration when the work ships and the outcome is clear.
If you love structure for structure’s sake, you’ll feel friction. If you love sharp teammates who move quickly and stay focused on the team outcome, you’ll thrive. Of course, when teams are empowered to move, the pace gets real, fast.
Hardcore: Build While You Run
Crypto never sleeps. That means you’re always learning, iterating quickly, and getting comfortable with a little uncertainty. Our “Hardcore” value is about resilience, urgency, and building with focus in a fast-moving environment.
If your ideal workday requires perfect clarity before you start, this won’t feel like a fit. There are moments when the right answer isn’t obvious, the situation is evolving in real time, with the expectation to run. You build a playbook while you’re running it. Amid ambiguity, you make the call, test it, iterate fast.
Day to day, “Hardcore” looks like this: you pick the highest-impact problem and get moving. You ship the first useful version, then improve it fast. You work hard, stay curious, and keep your energy pointed at outcomes. When something doesn’t land, you don’t spiral or stall. You learn fast, fix what broke, and get back up with a better approach.
The upside is that when you deliver, people notice. You need a growth mindset that can take the pressure, learn quickly, and keep momentum when things are moving fast and not fully defined.
The reason we push this hard is that the end game is always the user.
User-Focused: Our North Star
If you’re not excited about building things that are genuinely useful for users, this probably isn’t your playground. At Binance, when your work goes live, real people use what you ship, every day, at scale.
Being “User-Focused” is the job. You’ll obsess over edge cases because users shouldn’t pay for our assumptions. You’ll rewrite a copy until it’s crystal clear because clarity protects people. You’ll fight to remove friction because users’ time matters. And you’ll take pride in the invisible work, the safeguards, improvements, and fixes that keep users secure and their trust intact.
If you’re chasing recognition more than outcomes, you might miss the point, because satisfying users is our end game. But if you love making things smoother, safer, and more reliable for users, you’ll fit right in.
Final Thoughts: Binance is Not for Everyone
Binance’s vision is to increase the freedom of money globally, and we don’t take that lightly. This culture is built for people who have high standards, real ownership, and work that ships into the real world.
Here’s the last reality check: if you’re after comfort, predictability, and low-stakes days, you’ll probably be happier elsewhere. But if you want a role that stretches you, trusts you, and keeps you interested because the impact is real, you might have found your place.
Comfort seekers, skip this. Builders, come exchange the world. Explore open roles at generallink.top/careers now!
Further Reading
Naomi's Binance Seeds Story – Learning Fast, Leading Early, Transitioning Well
Making It Count: How Bola Turned a Short-Term Opportunity With Binance Into a Full-Time Win
How Binancians Are Fostering Accountability Through Radical Candor