Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers
Reputation is a fragile thing. I&#x27;ve got no horse in this, it&#x27;s not my industry and I&#x27;m just a spectator. But two days ago I thought of Stripe as a top notch company, with top notch leadership. Since I&#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&#x27;ve created: we know that everything we&#x27;re told is polished to make it look as nice as possible, so when the facade cracks, we should adjust heavily.<p>So now I&#x27;m going to have to shift my priors, and it may well be unfair to the firm. For one, I don&#x27;t know if the allegations are true. I also don&#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.<p>Specifically about the rescinded offers, the only acceptable reason to do that is when the person has gotten the offer in bad faith, eg they lied about their CV or claimed to have done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&#x27;t. Other than that, someone who&#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&#x27;s an utterly crappy thing to have happen, and any company that does it should be outed for it.