[msoad]

In case tweet disappears:

> Wow! Jay, you took interviews with Plaid & asked probing questions multiple times over the past few years, and your team sent repeated RFP's (under NDA!) to us asking for tons of detailed data. I wish y'all the best with these products, but surprising to see the methods.

[PragmaticPulp]

And a rebuttal from Jay Shah (the accused) claiming that this isn't true: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FR8FjJ9VsAAMY_k?format=jpg&name=...

> Zach, sorry you feel this way, but this isn’t true and I think you know that. You reached out to me repeatedly—I never reached out to you for information. Stripe did an RFP because we work with partners for this product, and we had hoped to include Plaid.

[gamblor956]

Based on my experience interviewing with Stripe a few years ago, I wouldn't doubt that Stripe is capable of the kind of behavior they are accused of.

[lsh123]

+1

A couple years ago Stripe reached out to me saying they like my background and that they want to discuss potential roles. I was working on a payments product at a FAANG company at that moment and was starting to think it’s time to do something else. So I said I am interested. Stripe scheduled an interview with Q… J… (Eng Director at Stripe). After a few generic questions about my past experiences, Stripe’s Q… J… asked a series of very specific questions about vendors/partners, API integration details, txn costs, etc. at my current company. I politely declined to answer these questions citing my employment agreement and NDA. I never heard back from Stripe again.

Edit: fix autocorrect

[gamblor956]

I signed an NDA before my interview so I can't go into details but my experience was a lot like yours.

[xtracto]

Darn, if this is true.

I'm going to do the low-effort comment and link to a Silicon Valley series video someone posted here not long ago (Brain Rape): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc

[stu2b50]

I’m surprised they had this information so easily at hand. How did they even know that? They saw the tweet and the first thing that comes to mind is to query all the people they’ve interviewed?

[lambda_lord]

It wasn’t some IC interviewing for a job, it was a representative of Stripe and Plaid doing a product interview for a possible partnership.

[stu2b50]

Interesting. I'm much less sympathetic, then. I would imagine that kind of situation would be far more formal, with lawyers from both sides present, and, to be frank, this kind of information gathering an expectation. It would be pure naivety for it not to be - these are multibillion dollar companies talking to each other!

On the other hand, if I, a random hypothetical engineer, were interviewing someone for a team, in a 1-1 situation, and they asked about what I worked I'm, I'm naturally going to be less guarded nor really prepared to sufficiently redact my answers.