Tell me you have Stockholm syndrome in as many words as you can…
Being proud of your work because of what you deliver with it is great. Being proud of canceling holidays because your manager says so is slavery with extra steps.
Being proud of your work because of what you deliver with it is great. Being proud of canceling holidays because your manager says so is slavery with extra steps.
I doubt this person would feel the same if Stripe had been a failure. Articles like this encourage companies that don't have product-market fit (no amount of 15 hour days will fix product market fit, sorry), adequate talent, nor adequate resources to imitate this kind of culture. The end result isn't pretty.
I might be biased because I could never imagine myself working this hard for an Internet payments platform (noting that in 2015, Stripe was already worth $5B. This is not a seed or Series A/B scenario). Maybe it's because I came from bio- and medical engineering where the people who work this hard save lives and cure diseases.
It is not surprising that OP likes Stripe so much.
You would fucking love your company if you were paid $5m USD per year as a regular engineer. Let's not kid ourselves lmao.
If this is just about startups in general, I fully agree. I didn't know we have moved on to a new topic but ok.
I was responding to the parent thread regarding Stripe being a cult. No other cults pay most of their members in millions of dollars.
I totally agree with you. Bad luck and/or choosing bad company would get you in a bad situation. Water is also wet.
I would be surprised if they're bringing in more than $250k pre-tax.
>levels.fyi
You are the one who is completely out of touch.
The opposite happens here. Comments are criticizing OP for worshipping her time at Stripe. OP was working too hard blah blah blah... except that OP was also paid handsomely for her work.
Except you're pulling that out of thin air with no proof and clearly no idea what kind of comp packages the average person has. Stripe isn't even a public company, how do you think she made all that money?
And she joined Stripe in 2015, when the company was already five years old. Whatever equity she received would be a pittance and issued at relatively high strike prices (Stripe had very favorable 409a's), and it's very unlikely for her role and experience level to be worth more than a year-or-two of salary.
It is very likely her stock worth way more than a year or two of salary.
Yes, this is stock from private company.
Should we pity her for getting stripe private stock worth millions USD? Oh my god she is so sad right now. I'm crying for her. How is she going make a living?
Stripe pays a little more than slave wages...