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Stripe is renowned for having a good corporate culture.

Stripe is a lot smaller than Airbnb (by headcount, but also financials probably). But it's growing quickly, and things have already started to degrade.

So, it's coming. On the other hand, they are very savvy about branding and comms, so they should be able to defy reality for a while ;)

Seriously, they don't get credit for how good they are at this. And they probably wouldn't want that credit if they got it!

(You know that piece about FB's "far-reaching tentacles" from the other day? I wonder why we haven't seen anything similar about Stripe yet. Hmmmm...)

Probably some selection bias in the stories. It's not as much fun to read about a pretty good place to work.

Maybe the positive stories are from those who have experienced survivor bias

Or perhaps, alternatively, current common corporate structures tend to breed toxic environments and terrible management practices.

respecting your engineers is not pampering