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This is interesting to me, because this is the opposite of what I’ve heard about working for Stripe. Do you have anything to add to this?
by ovao 5y ago
This is interesting to me, because this is the opposite of what I’ve heard about working for Stripe. Do you have anything to add to this?
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- jmillikin 5y agoI formerly worked at Stripe -- last day was less than a month ago. In summary, culture is downstream of hiring decisions. If a company is doubling headcount each year, then after two years 75% of the population will be new. If the newcomers' culture is different from what old-timers prefer, then attrition increases, which further skews the demographics. This effect is strengthened when the hiring pipeline is focused on alumni from specific companies. For example, if you hire three layers of management from Amazon, and they replace tenured engineering leadership with newly hired ICs from Amazon, your team's culture will become that of Amazon. Some blog posts I've found to be relevant to current circumstances: * https://danluu.com/people-matter/ https://danluu.com/people-matter/ * https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-%E2%80%93-soda%E2%80%99s-are-no-longer-free/ https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
- fnbr 5y agoI’m also quite interested in hearing about this. I used to only hear good things about Stripe, but over the last year, there’s been quite a few negative posts. I’d be interested in more details.