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Re: What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

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Post by dbbk »

austinpena wrote: post #167
philfreo wrote: post #153

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As a customer of Stripe too, I almost[1] couldn't disagree more. Running a global online/SaaS business is hard. So much complexity everywhere. I wish Stripe would handle MORE problems & complexity and would happily pay for it. Just a few examples Stripe could handle: - Checkout + Portal is a great start, but it still takes too much (expensive) design+dev brainpower to create the entire experience of a high quality tr…

Do you know of anyone who does a god job for SaaS companies?

Paddle, they take on literally all of your tax and VAT compliance globally.

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Post by dbbk »

ffggvv wrote: post #25

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

Public companies are a pain in the arse. I'd prefer not answering to shareholders.

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Post by __float »

NKCSS wrote: post #227
mchusma wrote: post #122

I mean this in the most constructive way possible. As a stripe customer for 6 years, I effectively only care about reducing transaction costs. Period. Stripe's core business is being a part of a "credit card sales tax" that is substantial. Much of this is the fault of Visa/Mastercard/Amex, but that is the problem-space they exist in. Payments are transferring bits, and should be effectively free. If they want to "mak…

Here in The Netherlands, we have a platform called iDeal. All dutch banks are connected and all webshops accept it (it's hard to find a place to use your creditcard here). Transactions are instant and non-refundable. Costs are around 0.35 per transaction and NO % fees. Just a fixed amount per transaction. For big volumes, that per-transaction amount can be lower. It's amazing and I wished they'd just roll that out wo…

It's also much less reliable than the credit card networks. Fundamentally it's not ready to be a large instant payment provider, as it's still based on the same slow batch processes that run your normal bank transfers.

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Post by webmaven »

borroka wrote: post #259
webmaven wrote: post #219

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> I understand that working with recruiters is hard (who ever said: I know a recruiter who is a genius? Or even the lesser: I know that recruiter, they are brilliant), but respecting candidates should be a priority of any organization. Generally speaking, the same sort of superlatives used for high IQ aren't used to describe high EQ, but we probably should. I have interacted with a few recruiters (not at Stripe, I've…

My "genius" comment above was a bit salty and over the top. But, I had so many bad experiences with recruiters (of a company, independent) that is quite difficult at this point for me to take them seriously or offer any (professional, I am not talking about human of course) respect beyond what I grant to anyone, from poor to rich companies, from guilty to innocent managers, from stripes to stars. I understand it is t…

> It sounds like you found a decent recruiter and it is quite telling that a recruiter re-initiating a conversation and apologizing, things I happen to do also in my job, is now an "off-the-charts" EQ genius. That's the 101 for anyone with a modicum of professionalism. I am sure there are great recruiters around like there are plenty of needles in haystacks.

Ah, sorry about that, I didn't mean to conflate the two quite so directly. I also didn't make it clear that I was ghosted by the hiring manager after the recruiter handed me off to them. The recruiter wasn't supposed to even be involved from that point forward, but they followed up anyway. However, you can ignore the anecdote as an unnecessary distraction if you like.

Anyway, sure, recruiters get a bad rap, in the same way as used-car salespeople do. I wasn't really arguing that the reputation the profession has is entirely undeserved. I was just saying that good and even great recruiters do actually exist. For many of the working-environment reasons you've mentioned, they often don't stay in the role of recruiting ICs, or even for relatively senior roles. They have better opportunities in recruiting-adjacent fields like executive search services, life-coaching, and so on.

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Post by JacobAldridge »

VBprogrammer wrote: post #226
dazc wrote: post #205

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You pay the same price though. Some stations will also insist on prepayment at certain times of the day.

> Some stations will also insist on prepayment at certain times of the day. I'm not saying that this doesn't happen but in nearly 20 years of driving around the UK I've yet to encounter it.

I’ve only driven in maybe a dozen countries, but so far the US is the only one where the pre-payment thing existed. I was glad to have read about it in trip prep, or I would have stood there staring at a non-functioning gas pump for far too long!

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Post by akhilcacharya »

cyral wrote: post #250
akhilcacharya wrote: post #159

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When I was an undergrad I applied to Stripe several times with a FANG on my resume as well without any responses. Two reasons for that are: 1) I went to a state school (NC State) 2) The FANG in question was Amazon, which I don't think they "count". I have friends that applied when they decided to leave Amazon and they didn't get interviews either. If your FAANG was Amazon I'm guessing you're in the same boat.

Haha, you guessed it. I wish I knew how much my school would matter when I applied to colleges, and that Amazon isn’t as well respected as I hoped. Unfortunately Microsoft gave me a LeetCode hard for my internship interview and google auto declined me so I didn’t have a chance at them. Not sure what was up with that either.

I knew how much school mattered I just couldn’t get into a better one save UNC. Shame, really.

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Post by C1sc0cat »

alisonkisk wrote: post #251
C1sc0cat wrote: post #208

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Be careful what you wish for the EU mandated reduced fees - the backs just stopped doing cashback cost me almost £20 a month. Of course the reduced savings where not passed on to the end consumer

That working as intended. Now vendors can lower prices for all users instead of being held hostage by credit card banks/processors/users taking money from cash/debit users to divide among themselves.

No they took it for themselves

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Post by jgalt212 »

dbbk wrote: post #271
austinpena wrote: post #167

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Do you know of anyone who does a god job for SaaS companies?

Paddle, they take on literally all of your tax and VAT compliance globally.

Where is this handled now? We do this ourselves, but then I hit the google, and got this page:

https://stripe.com/docs/orders/tax-integration

but the header says the service is now deprecated. Is there a new one?

Re: What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

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Post by dbbk »

jgalt212 wrote: post #278
dbbk wrote: post #271

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Paddle, they take on literally all of your tax and VAT compliance globally.

Where is this handled now? We do this ourselves, but then I hit the google, and got this page: https://stripe.com/docs/orders/tax-integration but the header says the service is now deprecated. Is there a new one?

I don't know, I use Paddle, not Stripe.

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Post by ionwake »

AA-BA-94-2A-56 wrote: post #107
ionwake wrote: post #89

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Lol the worst job application turn down I ever received was from Spotify. They said “ we don’t want you in our band “ It was oddly personal and upsetting. Lol How tone deaf is hr sometimes

I'd become an apple music or google music user for life after that

I know! It was particularly painful because I used spotify daily for about 5 years up until that point and was technically aware of the product.

However I realise it was just a bad person in a big company so I did not let it reflect badly on my use of the product.

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