I hate to pile on but I absolutely agree. It's always curious to me that I have seen multiple posts on HN parroting how great Stripe's recruiting is, when my experience was lackluster at best, and a shit show at worst. As an outsider, "effort" and "thoughtfulness" would have been the last words I would have used to describe Stripe's recruiting process.

When I interviewed with them. I got the same amount of long periods of no contact and people showing up late (if showing up at all) to interview calls. The things the recruiter told me about the role and interview process completely contradicted the things that the team members told me. I was told that the third interview would be a coding interview, and then when the interviewer showed up (late to the interview, of course), it turned out I had prepared for nothing and the interview was actually just a behavioral.

They weren't even able to tell me if the role was pre-sales (and commission based) or if the role was post-sales (and not commission based). The leadership team had apparently not decided yet, but still wanted to hire people for this role. This is a pretty fundamental characteristic about a job, and I honestly don't know how you can recruit for a position without even knowing the basic compensation structure.

In the end, the recruiter told me that they wanted to move forward with scheduling the final round, then rescheduled my interview several times, then cancelled it outright (but assured me they still wanted to interview once they found a good time), and then eventually the recruiter totally ghosted me without scheduling the interview and never responded to further emails.