ggfgdjfhgjsdhfg | 4 years ago | on: Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates”
Maybe I'm spending too much time in startup circles when I read this yesterday, I was furiously searching to see when Naval Ravikant said this...
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ggfgdjfhgjsdhfg | 4 years ago | on: If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy?
Why does Naval strike me as someone who has a combination of arrogance and judgment in his every interaction? He sounds like a weird mashup of Alan Watts meets Osho meets Vinod Khosla character...
ggfgdjfhgjsdhfg | 4 years ago | on: Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
I'm posting this from a throwaway and not my regular account so not to incriminate myself. But my experience outlined below is 100% truthful.
Stripe is arrogant. I have many years of solid and proven experience. They called me out of the blue and I accepted to speak to the hiring manager. The recruiter sounded very arrogant in first conversation. She rushed me to schedule an interview but inexplicably postponed the interview with hiring manager by four weeks once I accepted.
When I reached out to an acquaintance of mine who had worked in Stripe in the interim, she said that they are simply in search of marquee brand names in your resume and it is a mess inside. As per her, the people who work there are simply too egotistic. Even people who just happened to have won the "lucky sperm/egg" lottery by joining a rocket ship early on considered themselves as geniuses.
In my experience in interviewing with them I felt the same. I sensed an undercurrent of arrogance, feeling of superiority, etc. They deserve praise for what they have accomplished so far and their valuation but it feels like it has gone to their head for many employees who work there now.
Needless to say, I didn't get the job. I'm not bitter but felt that they didn't treat me well in the process...
If you are interviewing there, beware.....
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