I always wonder when I see things like this -- are there actually people who will work for free just to apply for a job? I do not mean this as snark. And I certainly would be open to the idea of a trial period or working on an in house project after the interview. But to ask someone to put in hours just for the possibility of an interview seems like a very asymmetric request. Am I off base here? EDIT: It's probably w…
You're on base. I guess this would work for certain companies like Google, or Apple, but if you're an average company (no offense, but Stripe is nothing special), then you probably won't get many candidates, maybe not even 4 or 5.
In other words, Stripe is just like every other boring, trivial corporation!!!