Stripe Pros/Cons?
I’ve noticed a number of comments on Blind that there isn’t great engineering work at Stripe and good engineers leave after a short tenure due to boredom. Basically that it’s just hacking ruby to stitch together payment APIs. Any truth to this? From an engineer’s perspective what are the pros / cons of Stripe? Let’s assume that money / company valuation doesn’t matter.
There is one employee on here who likes to grind the ax you mentioned. It is probably true for them but I don't think everybody there works on the same project. They have something like 1000 engineers now. It is a b2b fintech, not a consumer brand company. It is going to be different than Twitter because the customers and competitors are different.
I’ve heard same from a few employees - but presumably others would be more open about the interesting technical challenges
I have seen very few Stripe employees on Blind and even when I do see them, they don't say a whole lot. It's not a huge company (only a couple thousand employees) and maybe fewer of them are disgruntled enough to be on here
They’re getting 250M daily API calls. It’s not a lot for a company their size, but it’s enough to create interesting scalability challenges, especially if you combine it with the high availability requirement (was it 99.9995%?). There are also teams like Radar, which sound even more technologically advanced.
Good point about high availability!
Stripe has the potential to double compared to all other companies and that is why it is very attractive to everyone. Work wise I hear it’s a decent place and nothing great. My coworker from Linkedin who went there is saying that he was solving more challenging and interesting problems at LinkedIn data infrastructure group. Payments platform is not as sexy in general for engineering challenges (compared to other internet scale problems like ads, videos, messenger, core infra etc).
Exactly - seemed everyone likes the company due to potential 💰. Maybe this is just Blind thinking TC matters above all. If money wasn’t a concern (let’s assume I am FI and could RE but want to work more) is it an interesting place to work? “decent place and nothing great” isn’t a ringing endorsement. 😁
“Stripe has the potential to double compared to all other companies” FYI this is no longer the case due to Stripe changes to RSU grants to limit upside. Basically it’s $ per year regardless of stripe stock price.
Having said that I would definitely go to stripe from LinkedIn for the money even though I am enjoying my work in a data infra team at LinkedIn. I just don’t want to shift during this covid time especially on a visa
Only pros
Why?