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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by akhilcacharya on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:30PM (#24725804)
When I was an undergrad I applied to Stripe several times with a FANG on my resume as well without any responses.

Two reasons for that are:

1) I went to a state school (NC State)

2) The FANG in question was Amazon, which I don't think they "count". I have friends that applied when they decided to leave Amazon and they didn't get interviews either.

If your FAANG was Amazon I'm guessing you're in the same boat.

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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by cyral on Friday October 09, 2020 @08:16AM (#24729113)
Haha, you guessed it. I wish I knew how much my school would matter when I applied to colleges, and that Amazon isn’t as well respected as I hoped. Unfortunately Microsoft gave me a LeetCode hard for my internship interview and google auto declined me so I didn’t have a chance at them. Not sure what was up with that either.
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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by akhilcacharya on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:15AM (#24752416)
I knew how much school mattered I just couldn’t get into a better one save UNC. Shame, really.
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