Stripe doesn’t make the distinction between software engineers and SREs that some firms do. We’re all responsible for shipping things that work for our customers, regardless of whether we’re working on a product team or an infrastructure team.
You can see our open roles at https://stripe.com/jobs/search?t=engineering (some corresponding to multiple people). They’re very real. We hire hundreds of engineers every year.
I should point out that the way you phrased it sounds very much like "Yeah, you're gonna carry a pager and like it. Deal with it." This, if true, entirely disqualifies Stripe for me as a potential employee; I am not interested in ever being on call, unless I'm getting an absurd slice of the upside that a company Stripe's size is not offering.
Do you want to clarify your phrasing or is that actually how you operate? :(
quite a few shops are hiring rn. i’ve been told google plans on easing up on hiring over the rest of 2020, but it wasn’t described to me as a freeze. there are a bunch of startups that managed to close funding before this broke open, they’ve been hiring as well if thats your thing
Google wouldn’t describe it as a freeze. “Pause”, “slow down”, “recalibration” are all great euphemisms because unless you are super hard up on cash you are going to have critical roles to fill or backfill and the PR hit on a “freeze” is and unforced error.
