Sell yourself, sell your work

I heard from multiple people working at Stripe that selling yourself is a huge reason why they think it's a very bad place to work. You apparently have to make full-on folders to showcase what you have done.

Ugh, sounds horrible. This is what happens when extroverted bullshitters get to decide the rules around career advancement. Your ability to write self-promotional marketing slop counts for as much as or more than the actual work you were hired to do. I say this as someone who is right now grudgingly writing self-promotional marketing slop instead of doing my job.

All of the places I've worked at that have come close to this style of self-promotion have been dominated by kingdom builders and professional bullshitters.

Is this why Stripe's one of the most hated products (that people have to use anyway)?

This is an aside, and straight up stolen from a comedian whose name escapes me.

Why is it that we always see articles extolling the virtues of extroversion to introverts? Be more outgoing! Be more obnoxious!

But we never see articles suggesting that extroverts shut the fuck up and let the world be livable for the rest of us.

Sounds like George Carlin to me?

Stripe is surprising in that it feels like the assembler of payment systems. Powerful but boy do you have to roll a lot of your own stuff.

Like why can't I call an API and ask "what subscriptions is Joe on?". Why can't Joe unsubscribe via Stripe without me building something out.