This makes no sense. A company like Stripe has in-house recruiters. An external recruiter would never tell a candidate they referred they were hired without he

This makes no sense. A company like Stripe has in-house recruiters. An external recruiter would never tell a candidate they referred they were hired without hearing it from the company first - as they’d be burned too many times by setting people up for disappointment, and it would destroy their reputation with the employer.