Company details

HEADCOUNT

1000-2999

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Technology & Digital

WEBSITE

http://www.squarespace.com/

About the company

Squarespace builds software that helps people create websites and run online businesses, covering websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools. The company also operates products like Acuity Scheduling and other creator and commerce tools under the Squarespace umbrella. Squarespace has been owned by private equity firm Permira since the acquisition closed on October 17, 2024. Public hiring materials put a lot of weight on small-team work and shipping real product changes, including for interns and new graduates.

Locations and presence

Squarespace is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Dublin (Ireland) and Aveiro (Portugal). Squarespace also lists coworking presence in the UK, Netherlands, and Australia, plus a mix of hybrid and remote roles depending on team.

Palpable Score

73.3

/ 100

Squarespace is a strong pick for grads who want a paid internship or a supported first engineering role, because the company spells out mentoring, weekly check-ins, and code review support. The score is held back mostly by outcomes visibility, since public materials do not publish intern conversion rates, promotion timelines, or early-career retention.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

17.3

/ 20

The company runs a formal 12-week paid summer internship program and publishes a dedicated early-career page describing how interns work on small teams with real product scope.
Squarespace posts multiple Summer 2026 intern roles across functions (for example, software engineering, product design, and product management), which is repeatable early-career access rather than one-off hiring.
The company also positions “New Grad” engineering as a full-time route with embedded team placement, which is clearer than treating grads as generic junior applicants.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.7

/ 20

The company outlines a typical intern interview flow (including take-home assessment plus technical and soft-skills interviews) and says recruiters keep candidates updated along the way.
Squarespace uses consistent job postings for early-career roles that spell out eligibility windows (graduation dates) and location expectations (for example, NYC hybrid/on-site for some internships).
The company still has mixed public interview feedback, including reports of long waits or uneven follow-up on technical take-homes, which hurts consistency for early-career candidates.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

15.7

/ 20

The company assigns interns an Intern Lead plus weekly one-on-ones and “transparent feedback,” and pairs that with planned educational programming across the summer.
Squarespace describes New Grad engineering support using specifics like mentorship, detailed code reviews, and collaboration inside small engineering teams.
The company backs the learning pitch with examples of intern projects shipped to users (for example, domain recommendations and payments integrations), but the public detail stops short of showing structured competency milestones or promotion criteria.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

14.7

/ 20

The company states the internship program is paid across all teams, and multiple Summer 2026 postings show explicit hourly rates (for example, $54 per hour for software engineering interns, and mid-$40s per hour for some design and PM internships).
Squarespace publishes benefits that signal stability for early-career hires, including medical coverage, paid family leave, flexible PTO, retirement match programs, and eligibility for equity for qualifying employees.
The company does not consistently show pay ranges on every early-career role page in one place, which makes it harder for candidates to compare options without checking third-party listings.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company includes first-person early-career testimonials describing rapid ramp-up on unfamiliar tools and building end-to-end features, which supports “progression in responsibility” as an outcome angle.
Squarespace has public employee reviews that mention multi-year tenure and internal role progression, but they are not broken out into early-career cohorts or time-to-promotion data.
The company’s LinkedIn footprint shows ongoing hiring volume and recurring internships, but public materials still lack the hard outcomes most grads want (intern-to-offer rate, early promotions, and 12–24 month retention).

Useful links & resources

Early Career Recruiting (Interns + New Grads)Software Engineering Intern - Summer 2026 (role page)Careers and benefits overview