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    Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

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    721 points hhs | 11 comments | 16 Apr 20 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source | bottom
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    JaakkoP ◴[16 Apr 20 14:56 UTC] No.22889999[source]▶
    I love the quote from John Collison:

    "This is digital migration in a very compressed period of time, for both businesses and customers," Collison adds. "My mom recently asked me if I'd heard of 'this Instacart thing.' Yeah mom, I have."

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    pc ◴[16 Apr 20 15:03 UTC] No.22890098[source]▶
    :-). True.
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    1. sjunlee ◴[16 Apr 20 15:09 UTC] No.22890160[source]▶
    Is Stripe still hiring during COVID-19?
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    2. pc ◴[16 Apr 20 15:12 UTC] No.22890193[source]▶
    Yes!
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    3. crtlaltdel ◴[16 Apr 20 15:18 UTC] No.22890257[source]▶
    quite a few shops are hiring rn. i’ve been told google plans on easing up on hiring over the rest of 2020, but it wasn’t described to me as a freeze. there are a bunch of startups that managed to close funding before this broke open, they’ve been hiring as well if thats your thing
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    4. eiopa ◴[16 Apr 20 15:27 UTC] No.22890377[source]▶
    Although they are particularly picky at the moment, which makes sense given the situation.

    Anecdotally, I couldn't get an interview, even though I had an offer from them in the past.

    5. yellow_postit ◴[16 Apr 20 15:42 UTC] No.22890537[source]▶
    Google wouldn’t describe it as a freeze. “Pause”, “slow down”, “recalibration” are all great euphemisms because unless you are super hard up on cash you are going to have critical roles to fill or backfill and the PR hit on a “freeze” is and unforced error.
    6. wikibob ◴[16 Apr 20 16:16 UTC] No.22890875[source]▶
    How many headcount do you have open for SRE?
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    7. steveklabnik ◴[16 Apr 20 16:26 UTC] No.22890989[source]▶
    I've seen at least two of my friends take a new job there in the past week, FWIW. Both amazing people.
    8. mikaelmello ◴[16 Apr 20 22:32 UTC] No.22894251[source]▶
    Hello! Do you have plans for more new grad positions?
    9. patio11 ◴[17 Apr 20 01:35 UTC] No.22895402{3}[source]▶
    Stripe doesn’t make the distinction between software engineers and SREs that some firms do. We’re all responsible for shipping things that work for our customers, regardless of whether we’re working on a product team or an infrastructure team.

    You can see our open roles at https://stripe.com/jobs/search?t=engineering (some corresponding to multiple people). They’re very real. We hire hundreds of engineers every year.

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    10. wikibob ◴[17 Apr 20 04:11 UTC] No.22896126{4}[source]▶
    Thanks for the info about the team structure Patrick! Hope you're staying safe out there
    11. ahh ◴[17 Apr 20 13:33 UTC] No.22898830{4}[source]▶
    I should point out that the way you phrased it sounds very much like "Yeah, you're gonna carry a pager and like it. Deal with it." This, if true, entirely disqualifies Stripe for me as a potential employee; I am not interested in ever being on call, unless I'm getting an absurd slice of the upside that a company Stripe's size is not offering.

    Do you want to clarify your phrasing or is that actually how you operate? :(