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I thought the post yesterday was isolated hiccup in the process, I guess not! Scaling HR must be less of a priority & nightmare when the entire company is engi

I thought the post yesterday was isolated hiccup in the process, I guess not! Scaling HR must be less of a priority & nightmare when the entire company is engineering focused. Human touch get lost with such growth.

0des 5y ago
I've got a hunch someone got tipped off about the thread yesterday, and either it's a slow news day or there's blood in the water for someone to publish their grudge.
- listless 5y ago
  That's what it sounds like to me too. I don't think there is much here besides yesterdays HN post.
- lowkey_ 5y ago
  I love Stripe's product as much as the next guy and am a fan of Patrick Collison, but it's not okay for a company like Stripe to be rescinding a bunch of offers due to "shifting business priorities" all the time. (This isn't the first time). Why would you want to stick up for a $100b company that's screwing with (even a few) of our livelihoods unnecessarily? Do you know how many problems a rescinded offer can cause for someone? At their size, they could easily have just put the person they mistakenly hired in another org, rather than rescinding the offer.
  - jokethrowaway 5y ago
    > Why would you want to stick up for a $100b company that's screwing with (even a few) of our livelihoods unnecessarily? Do you know how many problems a rescinded offer can cause for someone? I don't know; probably for a lot of money?
- burnished 5y ago
  People were complaining it was unfair for anonymous people to be posting criticism like that and argued that it was more appropriate to either attach your name or for a journalist (who could verify experiences without revealing identity) to do so.
mattbrewsbytes 5y ago
Scaling HR? This is HR basics and if its the case they revoke an accepted offer more than zero times then it speaks volumes about mismanagement, less so just burning money by spending hours upon hours of multiple peoples time getting to the point of extending an offer to a candidate. If basics like this are mismanaged for HR, how does basic operations of other non-engineering functions look?
- pkrotich 5y ago
  I said so because I think as rate of hire and employee count increases you need seasoned HR professionals. Wondered if head of HR is an engineer for example (didn’t bother to check) As a small employer myself - I’m CEO, Dev and HR. We’re only 7 now - no way I’ll be doing same past 10 for example.
  - mattbrewsbytes 5y ago
    I agree that they should have seasoned HR pro's. The surface area of potential lawsuits with mismanaged hiring practices is too large to blow off people with "shifting business priorities" after extending an offer. Unless shifting business priorities means that hiring manager lost headcount. If they found someone with lets call it different demographics that's a huge can of lawsuit worms.
whimsicalism 5y ago
If they can't "scale HR" to not do this, they appear to be lacking basic skills that pretty much every other tech company has.
- pkrotich 5y ago
  I think they tried to use tech to try to solve human resource problems. Works to a point.

0des 5y ago

I've got a hunch someone got tipped off about the thread yesterday, and either it's a slow news day or there's blood in the water for someone to publish their grudge.

listless 5y ago
That's what it sounds like to me too. I don't think there is much here besides yesterdays HN post.
lowkey_ 5y ago
I love Stripe's product as much as the next guy and am a fan of Patrick Collison, but it's not okay for a company like Stripe to be rescinding a bunch of offers due to "shifting business priorities" all the time. (This isn't the first time). Why would you want to stick up for a $100b company that's screwing with (even a few) of our livelihoods unnecessarily? Do you know how many problems a rescinded offer can cause for someone? At their size, they could easily have just put the person they mistakenly hired in another org, rather than rescinding the offer.
- jokethrowaway 5y ago
  > Why would you want to stick up for a $100b company that's screwing with (even a few) of our livelihoods unnecessarily? Do you know how many problems a rescinded offer can cause for someone? I don't know; probably for a lot of money?
burnished 5y ago
People were complaining it was unfair for anonymous people to be posting criticism like that and argued that it was more appropriate to either attach your name or for a journalist (who could verify experiences without revealing identity) to do so.

mattbrewsbytes 5y ago

Scaling HR? This is HR basics and if its the case they revoke an accepted offer more than zero times then it speaks volumes about mismanagement, less so just burning money by spending hours upon hours of multiple peoples time getting to the point of extending an offer to a candidate. If basics like this are mismanaged for HR, how does basic operations of other non-engineering functions look?

pkrotich 5y ago
I said so because I think as rate of hire and employee count increases you need seasoned HR professionals. Wondered if head of HR is an engineer for example (didn’t bother to check) As a small employer myself - I’m CEO, Dev and HR. We’re only 7 now - no way I’ll be doing same past 10 for example.
- mattbrewsbytes 5y ago
  I agree that they should have seasoned HR pro's. The surface area of potential lawsuits with mismanaged hiring practices is too large to blow off people with "shifting business priorities" after extending an offer. Unless shifting business priorities means that hiring manager lost headcount. If they found someone with lets call it different demographics that's a huge can of lawsuit worms.

whimsicalism 5y ago

If they can't "scale HR" to not do this, they appear to be lacking basic skills that pretty much every other tech company has.

pkrotich 5y ago
I think they tried to use tech to try to solve human resource problems. Works to a point.