[lcc]

It's hard to argue against what Google has accomplished in the last 20 years. But in my Bay Area social circle, working at Stripe is considered more prestigious. These days Google is big, boring, bureaucratic, and maybe a little evil. Stripe is successful, growing, pays at least comparably well and has way more potential financial upside. They're also known to have a high hiring bar and a great dev culture. I've heard nothing but good things about the company or the people who work there.

- an ex-Googler with friends at Stripe

[whimsicalism]

I've always perceived working in finance/payment infrastructure as more "evil" than ad-tech. Is that not the general perception?

[Dayshine]

Finance infrastructure isn't evil, trading infrastructure is evil.

I seriously think many people view their bank's software team as evil! Incompetent maybe, but not evil.

[Dayshine]

Edit: I seriously don't think many people...

[srtjstjsj]

What's evil about helping consenting adults transmit money?

Stripe isn't a monopoly like Visa.