What's Stripe codebase like?
I've been hearing good things about Stripe. It seems like the kind of place I want to work for in terms of greenfield project, faster pace and growth opportunity. However, I'm a little worried about their codebase. I heard it's all Ruby. Is that true? Are there teams that use mature statically typed languages like C++ and Java? Also, how well are best practices like unit testing etc followed? Google L4 TC 280K
Lol. What good things have you heard about stripe?
As mentioned in the OP: new projects, faster pace and growth.
We do use sorbet which is an attempt to make ruby statically typed.
There's a big chunk of the codebase in Java too. If you have expertise I'm sure they'd love for you to work on that stuff.
Lol why? Is it a mess?
Seems most of the infra teams use scala/java there’s definitely more than just Ruby
Lol… monolithic ruby
Ouch. How's the unit test coverage? Is it painful to make changes to existing code?
Engineering wise it sucks compared to google