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I don't understand this at all. It reads like PR boilerplate: "Used by 99% of Stripes in the last month, Home is the source of truth for who we are, what we’re

by nappy 8y ago

I don't understand this at all. It reads like PR boilerplate: "Used by 99% of Stripes in the last month, Home is the source of truth for who we are, what we’re doing, and why—and a platform for enabling individuals and helping them get to know one another." If it's the intranet/homepage/directory, of course everyone at Stripe uses it. If this is something worth talking about, let's dig into the real metrics around engagement and usage. It's strange to me to see a YC company so distracted by something this far outside of their core competency, especially to the point they would announce publicly all of the time and effort they put into it. This seems like a pure vanity project at best, and at worst evidence that Stripe is misdeploying resources as they scale, which happens and is often unavoidable.

Belphemur 8y ago
It's a job offer. Telling people Stripe care about their employees, that the Stripes built together a platform at one of their Stripe hackathon Etc... You see the picture. It's not about the platform, it's about interesting people to work for Stripe.
- canadianwriter 8y ago
  Yup - they want top talent and while offering lots of money helps, having a great culture can mean a lot (for the right people.) This shows how much they focus on their people in that they are spending time and money on it. Also hints at the culture with things like the hackathon and some of things you see written in the examples.
dwild 8y ago
It's purely PR. They are showing their internal environment on Hacker News with a big button to check for openings at the bottom. It's a way to hire more employees, nothing else (and a pretty cheap way on top of that I would argue, the tool was already build, only the blog post was required). > It's strange to me to see a YC company so distracted by something this far outside of their core competency, especially to the point they would announce publicly all of the time and effort they put into it. They made this during an internal hackathon. This is not a distraction, it's just something that a few employees wanted to improve and they did it during a time that was allocated specifically to improve what employees wanted. You may argue that hackathon is mismanaging resources, but that's a whole other story.

by nappy 8y ago

Belphemur 8y ago

It's a job offer. Telling people Stripe care about their employees, that the Stripes built together a platform at one of their Stripe hackathon Etc... You see the picture. It's not about the platform, it's about interesting people to work for Stripe.

canadianwriter 8y ago
Yup - they want top talent and while offering lots of money helps, having a great culture can mean a lot (for the right people.) This shows how much they focus on their people in that they are spending time and money on it. Also hints at the culture with things like the hackathon and some of things you see written in the examples.

dwild 8y ago

It's purely PR. They are showing their internal environment on Hacker News with a big button to check for openings at the bottom. It's a way to hire more employees, nothing else (and a pretty cheap way on top of that I would argue, the tool was already build, only the blog post was required). > It's strange to me to see a YC company so distracted by something this far outside of their core competency, especially to the point they would announce publicly all of the time and effort they put into it. They made this during an internal hackathon. This is not a distraction, it's just something that a few employees wanted to improve and they did it during a time that was allocated specifically to improve what employees wanted. You may argue that hackathon is mismanaging resources, but that's a whole other story.