I'm curious about hours of operation. Are you folks 9-5? How flexible is it?
What it’s like to work for Stripe
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#42some people have knack of building great teams.
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#44Love the idea of a paper reading group. In case anyone missed the link in the article, they've put a bunch of the recently read papers up at https://github.com/gdb/stripe-prg/wiki/Papers
I have been trying to get a group of people together once a month to read a paper. We have a google group at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/papers-in..., and meet over Hangouts. Anyone interested should join up and suggest papers!
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a tough question. We consider compensation to be confidential to both employees and the company -- in general, it's not our information to share. Within the constraints of that, though, we try to be as open as possible. In particular, we share some information about current salaries at Stripe with new hires, and we share full details about all of Stripe's investment and the terms on which it was taken.
In considering doing something similar with my company, I'm wondering if there is an override for the auto CC that should be available to certain accounts?
I could be wrong but it doesn't sound like it's an "auto CC", but rather a "convention" as Alex said in another comment.
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#46Everything in the post seems positive. Is there anything that is not so great about working at Stripe or could be improved? Alex may be too new to answer but it would be great if other Stripe employees could weigh in.
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#47The truly interesting challenge will be how effectively they transition these policies as they scale. For example, the flood-of-email with filters works incredibly well for transparency at 40 people, but becomes an unmanageable deluge much past 100. The Capture the Flag runs, though, look like an idea that's both awesome and sustainable.
FWIW, Google also does the flood-of-email with filters thing, and it still works at 30,000 employees. People don't subscribe to every single mailing list anymore, but most e-mails are CC'd to at least a team mailing list, as are (usually) every code review and every bug. I get about 300 emails a day, several of which are mailing list digests with 25 emails apiece. I actually skim them all; I'm one of two people I kno…
It is probably good to have someone in this role, if everyone were doing it it would probably be a productivity drain. But as the only one doing it you may be able to spot issues that no one else has the same total oversight to catch.
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It's probably some measure of both, but from my experience there are some people you can't afford to give autonomy.
Then you can't afford to keep them around either, right?
Depends who you are and how big you are. Not every company can have the very best employees in the industry.
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#49Love the idea of a paper reading group. In case anyone missed the link in the article, they've put a bunch of the recently read papers up at https://github.com/gdb/stripe-prg/wiki/Papers
I like that people outside of academia do this :)
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#50All the communication channels may seem like information overload, but I would welcome it. I really like the part of open email (no more elite side bar conversations between people that don't know as much as they thought they did)
The best part is the IRC channel for chat that has a bot to log my status report (optional) and record for posterity and put it on the shared dashboard as encouragement, recognition and engagement.
sigh... I need coworkers that know what IRC is..