I'm very interested and have an on-site next week. I feel like their cultural values align with mine, and I love their mission. One thing that gives me pause is that within the last 6 months, top officers have said that they have no plans to IPO in the foreseeable future. I can understand why a company would want to stay private, but that's like, 40% of my salary that I can't touch for the foreseeable future.
If you’re not white you won’t succeed there
Really!? They have quite a few minority communities and even suggested to contact any of these aliases once onsite was confirmed.
Lol obviously it’s a joke, but I thought I was the only person who noticed that Stripe has so many white employees (more than what you’d typically notice at other companies) 😂
Foreseeable future likely is a policy to prevent revealing information to outsiders. I wouldn't put too much stock in that statement.
It's not the last 6 months. They've been telling that to employees for years. They have no intentions of an IPO.
How can equity be a viable compensation method if they truly have no intention of IPO? I heard they have buybacks every year, but I have yet to hear that from a Stripe.
How was the phone interview?
I had 2! Both very out of the normal of leetcode. First one was coding, it was basically like, hey here's some data, we need to get some specific info from it. Write code to do it. The goal was not to save space or time complexity, but to get the code written with valid answers ASAP. Each problem built on the last. I got through the first 2. There was a third, but we ended up talking for the last 15 minutes of it. Second was a conversational interview with the HM. Went over experience, and a bit of design. I'm not sure if only clearing the first 2 questions in the first interview was a guarantee for the second. I honestly didn't think I'd advance, but we did discuss the code as I was writing it, so maybe the discussion factored into the pass. You can code in an IDE, which is nice because you can get an immediate validation of your code just by running it.
Awesome! What type of question was it and did it require extensive knowledge of the language of choice and how did they see your screen? Was it OOP heavy?