Re:Building Products at Stripe
by peter_l_downs on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:45PM
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The interview is certainly useful in that it reflects Stripe's aspirations as a product team. I would have found this interview much more interesting if you had been able to go into detail about the reality of working on a product team where you're holding yourselves to a set of mutually incompatible constraints -- what tradeoffs you tend to make, how you think about making them, what are the common failure and success modes. Maybe a good follow-up post; consider this a single reader's suggestion, not a demand :)
While it’s true we are always hiring, this wasn’t meant to be a recruiting piece—it’s a personal interview Ken (the author) asked me to do based on demand from his readers.
It’s fair to say this is how we want product building to work, and we certainly don’t always live up to it. But I do think it’s broadly reflective of the operating model our product managers, engineers, etc. aspire to and what we hold ourselves accountable to. Do we fall short of our own aspirations regularly? Absolutely.