How much scope does an L3 have at Stripe?

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amznvan

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amznvan
Feb 14 13 Comments

I heard there's separate infrastructure teams and you request infra all set up. So if you're on a product team you just gather requirements and write business logic? I'm used to owning the entire stack, so the scope sounds a bit small to me. Looking to hear from other Stripe L3 what it's like working there.

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  • Meta
    matigulate

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    matigulate
    There's not separate infra teams at Amazon? You get asked to work on a backend project and have to run out to microcenter to buy some baremetal servers?
    Feb 14 1
    • Amazon
      amznvan

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      amznvan
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      We setup and maintain all of our own infra as code consuming public AWS services. I don't need to request anything from any other team.
      Feb 14
  • Uber
    BEYs75

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    BEYs75
    At least you'd make twice as much money and not work at Amazon.
    Feb 14 1
  • Stripe
    omegaez

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    omegaez
    My understanding is that it is equivalent in scope to E5 at Meta
    Feb 14 3
  • Amazon / Eng
    pulasulaki

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     pulasulaki
    Don't join Stripe as L3, if you're a tenured Sr.Eng at Amazon. It'll be a downlevel in terms of scope and influence. Process of getting promoted to staff is super vague.
    Feb 15 2
    • Amazon
      amznvan

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      amznvan
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      My main concern exactly.
      Feb 15
    • Amazon
      FoGX02

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      FoGX02
      This has been my experience. I feel like my scope has drastically decreased - it’s very top down at stripe. I don’t get included in meetings in which I contribute a significant amount on design. Whereas Amazon is more of a design-by-committee approach where everyone is involved. It feels weird coming over from Amazon as an L6.

      At least I get paid way more. But I’m not even convinced of this given the high valuation and how fintech has been taking a huge beating in the last year. PYPL down like 64%. So… it’s definitely a risk in terms of comp and learning/growing your leadership skills

      Tech problems are relatively easy. You’ll probably learn way more and have way more impact at Amazon.
      Feb 16
  • Stripe / Eng
    ferry!

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     ferry!
    You will be doing the job of a staff engineer, and be happy knowing even still the staff eng has to write docs 10x more than you
    Feb 14 0