Stripe highlights the importance of geographical diversity, which is often overlooked when companies just focus on tech-hub hiring. Not exactly controversial that Bay Area/Seattle/NYC only is awfully echo-chamby. Hire broad, hire wide!
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It’s weird to me that we are still stuck in this base, preliminary “but does remote work?!” stage of the conversation. Like asking “but does it scale?!” about Rails in 2019. I mean... open your eyes? World is full of success stories for remote (and Rails!
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And the tech does matter! At Basecamp, we absolutely need
@Basecamp to do what we do remotely. We’d be flying blind without it. This isn’t your “email and a phone call is all you get” era any more (and hasn’t been for over a decade!).Show this thread -
(That said, remote isn’t so much of a company fit as a personality fit. Some people really just don’t like it. Though a fair number of people who claim so haven’t actually tried it for a sustained period of time.)
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We’ve been working remotely at Basecamp for almost twenty years. You might want to skip the rookie mistakes and learn what we took two decades to deduce with our book REMOTE: Office Not Required. https://basecamp.com/books/remote
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I agree, although I had horrible experience working with them.
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Hrm, could you share with me what trouble you had? DMs open or edwin@stripe.com
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I looked through their jobs, but they were all US remote
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@threadreaderapp unroll this please -
Saluti please find the unroll here: Thread by
@dhh: "Stripe’s approach of treating Remote as its own hub within a company that’s traditional been in-office only is really sm […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1124280214312321024.html … Have a good day.
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