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Don't worry, some of the people on this list probably have nothing meaningful to share.

e.g. a university student (2025 grad) who is working part time is in this list.

Some of these folks are definitely not qualified to mentor anyone.

Most large Stripe clients split traffic. It doesn't make sense to have Stripe be a single point of failure if you're processing enough volume.

Doing even 10 on-site interviews is incredibly draining, especially if you're actually contributing at your full time job.

I interviewed around 2 years ago at about 10 places as well. 10 days of interviewing for 6-7 hours was so mentally exhausting that I just took a week of vacation after all the interviews were done.

I had my 10 interviews in a span of 3 consecutive weeks.

Anyone who has been there for a decade had options and has already cashed out.

Folks who are getting screwed are the ones that joined in ~2017 when they started issuing RSUs instead of ISOs.

It's definitely not worth an engineer's time to resolve random customer issues, especially as Stripe has grown from ~500 people to ~7000 people.

Gone are the days where all the engineers were intimately familiar with every product and could offer you their tribal knowledge to resolve your silly issue.

Stripe is now a big corp. and there is no incentive for engineers to waste time on HN resolving customer feedback. There are proper channels that are better equipped to do so, namely the "clueless customer support agents" you speak of.

If your issue is truly some bug in the backend and not user error (which it usually is) it may eventually get surfaced to engineering.

LOL no.

This is literally moving backwards.

SF rents have fallen significantly only in "undesirable" areas which are mostly offices and high rises where rents were exorbitant anyway.

My friend's shoebox apartment was $3300/mo which he renewed for another 13 months for $2200/mo with 2 months rent free.

However, more residential neighborhoods have seen rents drop by only a little bit.

Is this basically the Konmari method?

Does this spark joy?

I didn't buy the test because all it would say would be "Congrats! You are 100% asian."

I feel like 23&me is literally only useful/interesting to white people because they can see which one of the 50 European countries they have ties to.

It's not that useful for me. I've had friends do it and get 99.97% Chinese or Indian.

Amazing, I could have told you that for free.

Yeah, but then I would have to live in Miami.

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION!

If you create a walled ecosystem within a communist country that straight up bans other competing non Chinese products, you might think that this party is in Shenzhen.

You're assuming that people actually own homes in the bay area.

Good one.

Yes! We need more diversity in the executives club!

What do you think of the "country of origin" segregation vs. citizenship.

I was born in India and raised in Canada. I'm never going to get permanent residency in the US based on employment.

Is the best bet just to get married to an American?