Re:What I Learned at Stripe
by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:50AM
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This is a good example of what the author calls a code-focused attitude. I'm not going to judge anyone for wanting to work that way, but there's a lot of roles where it's just not very useful.
Stripe Atlas, to take the author's example, is in the fundamentally communication-based business of helping new companies legally incorporate. The vast majority of their technical challenges are going to sound less like "how do we write code that does X" and more like "should the code do X or Y"? So people who see only the former as "actual work" are going to have a hard time producing any value.
Stripe Atlas, to take the author's example, is in the fundamentally communication-based business of helping new companies legally incorporate. The vast majority of their technical challenges are going to sound less like "how do we write code that does X" and more like "should the code do X or Y"? So people who see only the former as "actual work" are going to have a hard time producing any value.