<story><title>How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams</title><url>http://firstround.com/article/How-Stripe-built-one-of-Silicon-Valleys-best-engineering-teams</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gdb</author><text>To be clear, the point of the Sunday test isn&apos;t so much &quot;we want people to come in on Sundays&quot;. While many people (myself included) will come in on weekends, many people stick to a more standard 5-day schedule. The point is really just, is this the kind of person who makes you want to work with them? Do they make you more excited to work at Stripe? Would you go out of your way to be around them? If not, we shouldn&apos;t hire them.</text></item><item><author>nthj</author><text>&amp;#62; Stripe turns down candidates with outstanding engineering talent if they don’t fit with the team’s culture. Each candidate must pass the “Sunday test:” if this person were alone in the office on a Sunday would that make you more likely to come in and want to work with them?&lt;p&gt;Stripe&apos;s Sunday test and my Sunday test are slightly different: &quot;Would you come into the office to hack on a Sunday even if the servers weren&apos;t on fire?&quot;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is yes, you know you&apos;ve got a burnout risk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nthj</author><text>Sure, that makes sense, and I agree that &quot;likability&quot; is a fantastic metric to include in a hiring decision. And maybe the atmosphere and connotation is a bit different if you ask me the Sunday Test in person during an interview.&lt;p&gt;All that to say, as a developer who has been burned one too many times by the &quot;oh yes we have lives outside of work&quot; story (not so much), the question itself put me off a little, and I&apos;m wondering if there is a way to measure this likability factor without a scenario that may immediately ping the sixth sense of a developer with certain past experiences. Just wanted to throw that out there.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams</title><url>http://firstround.com/article/How-Stripe-built-one-of-Silicon-Valleys-best-engineering-teams</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gdb</author><text>To be clear, the point of the Sunday test isn&apos;t so much &quot;we want people to come in on Sundays&quot;. While many people (myself included) will come in on weekends, many people stick to a more standard 5-day schedule. The point is really just, is this the kind of person who makes you want to work with them? Do they make you more excited to work at Stripe? Would you go out of your way to be around them? If not, we shouldn&apos;t hire them.</text></item><item><author>nthj</author><text>&amp;#62; Stripe turns down candidates with outstanding engineering talent if they don’t fit with the team’s culture. Each candidate must pass the “Sunday test:” if this person were alone in the office on a Sunday would that make you more likely to come in and want to work with them?&lt;p&gt;Stripe&apos;s Sunday test and my Sunday test are slightly different: &quot;Would you come into the office to hack on a Sunday even if the servers weren&apos;t on fire?&quot;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is yes, you know you&apos;ve got a burnout risk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>How about the follow-me-test&lt;p&gt;If this person left Stripe to setup on their own, would you ask to join them?  And would they have &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;?</text></comment>