A DE from Google joined Stripe a few months ago. I’m not going to name them, but I’m sure you can find them easily enough. Try reaching out to them.
IMO you should not leave a successful IC career at Google to join another large company, since your Google knowledge is vastly more useful at Google than anywhere else.
Highly doubt you’ll get L6 at stripe (L6 is the highest level). That is pretty much for DE’s or above at google. L5 at stripe has a large compensation band so you should be able to get a competitive offer if you make L5. At this level come to Stripe if the team or work energizes you because expectations are high and it won’t be rest or vest but you’ll be driving a large company initiative
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IMO you should not leave a successful IC career at Google to join another large company, since your Google knowledge is vastly more useful at Google than anywhere else.
L5 at stripe has a large compensation band so you should be able to get a competitive offer if you make L5.
At this level come to Stripe if the team or work energizes you because expectations are high and it won’t be rest or vest but you’ll be driving a large company initiative