Stripe Application
Referencing Nate’s comments here: 202009140035
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my internships, it’s this—I’m most productive and engaged with my work when my own morals and values are completely in sync with the company’s culture. Everything else follows from those first few well-defined principles.
I feel that way about Stripe’s values—as someone whose two current biggest goals in life are to improve every day and be a good person, I see how I would be totally at home with “Trust and amplify” and “Global optimization” as guiding directives at my workplace. I’m especially enamored by “Move with Urgency and Focus” as a core value—in my prior internships, I’ve sometimes failed to seek feedback early, being hesitant to push out unfinished work, and only realized later how much smoother things would’ve been if I had iterated quicker. I’m really impressed that Stripe has identified the importance of that and made it a company-wide cultural mandate, so no one feels afraid or awkward to ask for feedback when their work isn’t quite finished. To me, that’s the sign of a company that tries as hard as it can to create a productive and fulfilling workplace for its employees.
Another big reason I want to join Stripe is because of Stripe’s unique position as a startup yet industry leader — I think this opens up a huge number of very interesting, very specialized problems (that haven’t been solved yet!) that I would be able to try tackling as a new grad. I think the range of these problems wouldn’t be too far out of my wheelhouse (roughly), but still new enough to me that I’d be growing leaps and bounds as a collaborator and engineer.
I’m also a big fan of the attention to detail (I love the font and color scheme on the website!) and the unapologetically developer-focused experience that Stripe delivers.
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