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What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

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Re: What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

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Post by pc »

_corym wrote: post #12

Kind of crazy how all these articles come out about what it's like working at Stripe and how to apply. Everyone I've talked to who has applied has not received a response from their application. Even in my most recent experience I wrote a cover letter, reached out to multiple Stripe recruiters. Most of them either ignored me, or said that they were not working on that role and said my status is still "pending". I ima…

I'm sorry to hear this and apologize. We're definitely still a comparatively small team wishing we had more efficient ways to handle our inbound funnel. (We do have some ideas here.) But this is good feedback and we should absolutely have provided a better experience.

Re: What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

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Post by cm2012 »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #8
ve55 wrote: post #3

What a wonderful advertisement for working at Stripe. The impact of long-form well-written essays like this is huge, and fits perfectly with the theme of the essay itself about helping others succeed at scale. I like the personal notes included a ton, e.g. mentioning that he has struggled with depression personally, which I wouldn't have guessed, even if naively so. Being open and helpful with those topics helps a lo…

> What a wonderful advertisement for working at Stripe. Exactly, which is why some of this should be taken with a grain of salt. By all accounts, Stripe really is a good place to work and their success speaks for itself. Yet, it's important to remember that this article is at least one part advertisement. I'm not suggesting anyone dismiss the contents, but keep the context in mind. The article goes to great lengths t…

The author, Patio11, is such a trusted and long term member of the HN community that it counts for a lot more than usual for an advert.

Re: What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

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Post by patio11 »

ydlr wrote: post #23

I have never seen the word "hypergrowth" before this week, now I have seen it three or four times in just a few days. Is this the newest jargon from the California swindler class?

It's sufficiently a term of art in Silicon Valley that HN had threads about it 13 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25042 Note comment from Drew Houston, who had just launched Dropbox here a month before.

You can use HN search to pull up a few thousand other instances.

Re: What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

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Post by ffggvv »

why would you work at a company that may never go public and even if it does, already has such an oversized valuation you’ll likely not make much from it?

it seems predatory and abusive to employees to stay private this long

Re: What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

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Post by polote »

_corym wrote: post #12

Kind of crazy how all these articles come out about what it's like working at Stripe and how to apply. Everyone I've talked to who has applied has not received a response from their application. Even in my most recent experience I wrote a cover letter, reached out to multiple Stripe recruiters. Most of them either ignored me, or said that they were not working on that role and said my status is still "pending". I ima…

Well I don't know for Stripe but subconsciously recruiters will always consider people who apply to be needy compared to people who are 'hunted' via Linkedin.

When you do that kind of blog posts, you try to improve the image of the company externally so that more people want to work there. It could help with more people applying but also increase the acceptance rate of the offers.

When you have a lot of people applying then you just cherry pick the best ones

Re: What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

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Post by timerol »

alextheparrot wrote: post #20
timerol wrote: post #7

Does anyone know enough about Stripe's product lines to comment on what the following paragraph means? "My view on Stripe’s business prior to joining was “Stripe is basically a B2B SaaS company with extremely reliable capture of upside when users succeed.” I believe that substantially underappreciates the actual business. Large portions of Stripe’s business add another loop on top of the B2B SaaS loop, where Stripe i…

If you follow Patrick on Twitter you get used to this - even to the point where I didn’t realize this was from his blog but intuited it was a quote from him just by the style of writing. I believe what he’s getting at here is close to the following: Stripe isn’t just providing payment (Reliable capture on success, aka Stripe gets money on revenue generation), but is also trying to provide tools to make the B2B model…

I am familiar with and very much enjoy patio11's writing style. I enjoyed his "An update on a pre-registered result..." to the extent that I was actually laughing out loud while reading it, which was very much not the intent of the writing.

I now see two potential explanations. The first is Atlas, where Stripe enables the ecosystem of B2B SaaS companies to expand rapidly. The other, mentioned in a sibling to your comment, is marketplaces (Connect), where Stripe collects revenue from a number of operating payment networks. In both cases, Stripe is a B2B SaaS which serves other SaaS companies, which allows growth in a way that being a B2B SaaS that serves traditional business doesn't.

Re: What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

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Post by polote »

cm2012 wrote: post #22
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What a wonderful advertisement for working at Stripe. Exactly, which is why some of this should be taken with a grain of salt. By all accounts, Stripe really is a good place to work and their success speaks for itself. Yet, it's important to remember that this article is at least one part advertisement. I'm not suggesting anyone dismiss the contents, but keep the context in mind. The article goes to great lengths t…

The author, Patio11, is such a trusted and long term member of the HN community that it counts for a lot more than usual for an advert.

it just reinforces even more the fact that it is somewhat an ad ...
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