<story><title>Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/workplace/stripe-hiring-issues-rescinded-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Reputation is a fragile thing. I&amp;#x27;ve got no horse in this, it&amp;#x27;s not my industry and I&amp;#x27;m just a spectator. But two days ago I thought of Stripe as a top notch company, with top notch leadership. Since I&amp;#x27;m well aware that PR is a thing, that reputation also tends to be brittle, but while nobody had said anything bad about Stripe, I thought they were tops. This is not so much about Stripe as about the PR world we&amp;#x27;ve created: we know that everything we&amp;#x27;re told is polished to make it look as nice as possible, so when the facade cracks, we should adjust heavily.&lt;p&gt;So now I&amp;#x27;m going to have to shift my priors, and it may well be unfair to the firm. For one, I don&amp;#x27;t know if the allegations are true. I also don&amp;#x27;t know whether this is a one-off, or whether this happens all the time and this is the tip of the iceberg. I do know that whatever I hear is going to be deeply invested one way or the other.&lt;p&gt;Specifically about the rescinded offers, the only acceptable reason to do that is when the person has gotten the offer in bad faith, eg they lied about their CV or claimed to have done something they provably hadn&amp;#x27;t. Other than that, someone who&amp;#x27;s gotten an offer may well have started moving house, taking their kids out of school, gotten their spouse to quit their job, and all sorts of hard-to-reverse decisions. It&amp;#x27;s an utterly crappy thing to have happen, and any company that does it should be outed for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>One of the founders said on this forum that the anecdote which described a poor hiring experience was to them an aberration.&lt;p&gt;Now that other anecdotes are coming out of the woodwork, it seems maybe it may not be an exception but a broken internal process which needs fixing.  That said, we don’t know the full picture and whether the incidence is within range or outside the range for their industry.  That’s not yo say there shouldn’t be improvement.  The industry and the company may very well benefit from a change in practices.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/workplace/stripe-hiring-issues-rescinded-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Reputation is a fragile thing. I&amp;#x27;ve got no horse in this, it&amp;#x27;s not my industry and I&amp;#x27;m just a spectator. But two days ago I thought of Stripe as a top notch company, with top notch leadership. Since I&amp;#x27;m well aware that PR is a thing, that reputation also tends to be brittle, but while nobody had said anything bad about Stripe, I thought they were tops. This is not so much about Stripe as about the PR world we&amp;#x27;ve created: we know that everything we&amp;#x27;re told is polished to make it look as nice as possible, so when the facade cracks, we should adjust heavily.&lt;p&gt;So now I&amp;#x27;m going to have to shift my priors, and it may well be unfair to the firm. For one, I don&amp;#x27;t know if the allegations are true. I also don&amp;#x27;t know whether this is a one-off, or whether this happens all the time and this is the tip of the iceberg. I do know that whatever I hear is going to be deeply invested one way or the other.&lt;p&gt;Specifically about the rescinded offers, the only acceptable reason to do that is when the person has gotten the offer in bad faith, eg they lied about their CV or claimed to have done something they provably hadn&amp;#x27;t. Other than that, someone who&amp;#x27;s gotten an offer may well have started moving house, taking their kids out of school, gotten their spouse to quit their job, and all sorts of hard-to-reverse decisions. It&amp;#x27;s an utterly crappy thing to have happen, and any company that does it should be outed for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericmay</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;ve got no horse in this, it&amp;#x27;s not my industry and I&amp;#x27;m just a spectator. But two days ago I thought of Stripe as a top notch company, with top notch leadership.&lt;p&gt;No dog in the fight either here, but that&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; what those who posted these stories recently are trying to do. You saw some bit of news and then totally changed your perception. That&amp;#x27;s how this thing works. Those tiny bits of negative news just stick in your mind.&lt;p&gt;What were your priors? Stripe pays well, has a great product, leadership is great, hires top-tier developers, is a great place to work, etc. (making stuff up here idk what your priors were) but all of that is erased because you saw a random article about two people having offers rescinded and you don&amp;#x27;t even know if it&amp;#x27;s true?&lt;p&gt;What if all of the above priors were true and it was also true that two people had offers rescinded? Do they not have top-notch leadership because two people had offers rescinded? Is that enough to sway your opinion?&lt;p&gt;Best course of action here IMO is to wait and see more evidence. If you had a weak opinion either way why have one. If you had a strong opinion is this strong evidence to change &lt;i&gt;all of your priors&lt;/i&gt;? Plenty of companies rescind offers, they just aren&amp;#x27;t making it to the front page (Google, AirBnB, etc.).</text></comment>