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I have no idea if this is true or not. If it is, we should all know about it. This is one of the most shady things a company can do. Think about it, you're acce
by tinyhouse 5y ago
I have no idea if this is true or not. If it is, we should all know about it. This is one of the most shady things a company can do. Think about it, you're accepting an offer and telling your employer you're leaving, maybe rejecting other good offers you got, making plans etc. Then the company rescinds the offer... There might be some rare situations where this can happen and would be understandable, but Stripe is definitely not in that situation.
Reminds me a shady startup company I interviewed with 10 years ago. They kept lying about their financials and kept hiring people, knowing they gonna run out of money within 2-3 months. Their plan was getting these people on board, pay them salary for a couple of months, then announcing they company needs to raise more money, asking everyone to work without a salary for the time being. Everyone left 2 months after that.
- tyleo 5y agoI haven’t heard of rescinded offers so much but I’ve seen this happen in a different form: employees being hired into departments which were promptly shut down. I saw this happen as an intern at Microsoft when BlackBerry was shut down. I also saw it happen to some friends in the games industry. In one case the department shut down on a friends first day of work and they were promptly out of the job after moving across the country. It’s still a shitty thing to do though.
- tinyhouse 5y agoHappened to me as an intern as well. That was around 2009 if I'm not mistaken. The recession started and the company froze all hiring. A company like Microsoft is big enough and can move people around, no reason to rescind the offer.
- psyc 5y agoMy team got shut down on my first day at Microsoft. We got rolled into another decent project that needed similar skills, so I stayed.