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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by sushshshsh on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:18PM (#24723439)
what an amazing industry we work in! denying top talent every day because people aren't motivated enough to check emails, make phone calls, click buttons to schedule things.
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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by ignoramous on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:30PM (#24723585)
Stripe likely has pick of the cream for open positions. It has been public knowledge for a while that they're a rocket ship, and that attracts top talent by definition (in addition to sharks and wolves [0] I'd presume).

[0] https://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/06/great-story-from-s...

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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by varjag on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:48PM (#24723793)
Overwhelmed or not, ghosting after coding challenge/technical interview is unacceptable.
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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by colejohnson66 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:54PM (#24724329)
Correct. Never responding after an application? Par for the course. But asking someone to complete a coding challenge or even an interview and then ghosting is downright unprofessional and should be unacceptable.
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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by lioeters on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:58PM (#24724852)
Totally agree. From what we can see in this thread, when a recruiter / hiring manager / HR department makes it a regular practice to ghost interviewed candidates, it has a significant effect on the company's reputation - that they lack common decency and respect. It does not seem worth it for whatever time/effort they might have saved by such behavior. To put it another way, it seems it'd be worth spending time and effort to improve the process and experience, to improve such a reputation.
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