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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Sep 2018
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Jordan Gonen

      I would support this existing, but the best possible argument I can make for working In The Real World (TM) temporarily (at the start of a career in startups/tech/founding) is that you will gain an appreciation for why things work the way they do and where points of leverage are.https://twitter.com/jrdngonen/status/1018176580412043265 …

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      Jordan GonenVerified account @jrdngonen
      summer camp where you shadow employees in valuable industries: lending, healthcare, restaurants, construction, etc.
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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Sep 2018
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      Voice of someone older and wiser: my regret with respect to this is I spent 6 years on it when the pace of learning dropped off substantially after the first 6 weeks. (I still learned things in any 6 month stretch of time but rate of learning was lower than in other options.)

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Sep 2018
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      "Should I optimize for pace of learning or for material rewards early in my career?" I'd probably use pace of learning as the gating function and then, subject to that constraint, maximize for material rewards. Or, since we're on Twitter:pic.twitter.com/m0uLVYxCUa

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Sep 2018
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      This may sound obvious to some people but since there is probably 1+ people who need to hear it, including myself ~15 years ago: there are a lot of career opportunities which offer neither learning nor material rewards. You should probably avoid doing them.

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Sep 2018
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      Incidentally, and you can probably predict that I'd say this but it is a true fact that I've said the same thing for ~10 years: startups which have gotten past the Oh My God Everything Is On Fire stage but still rely keenly on every person having individual impact fit the bill.

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Sep 2018
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      Stripe is one of the names I've given as an example for that. I work here and rather enjoy it. We're hiring aggressively. Please feel free to get in touch.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Sep 2018
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      (One of the true joys of working here is that you get all the benefits of working at a startup deep in the tech ecosystem while *also* getting, if you optimize for it, a very close look at the operations of customers in any industry or sector which moves money around.)

      12:23 AM - 12 Sep 2018
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        2. Sam Fry‏ @benolott 12 Sep 2018
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          Replying to @patio11

          What languages are mostly in use there?

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Sep 2018
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          Replying to @benolott

          First thought: "Well I think you can find people who speak about a hundred but the set of ones we do material work in is closer to twelve..." Second thought: "Oh, parsing error. We're historically a Ruby shop with material use of JS, Scala, Python, and Golang."

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        2. Nerd curious abt psychology  🧠‏ @ClayNichols 12 Sep 2018
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          Replying to @patio11

          I looked at the Stripe openings. All the ones I'm appropriate seem to be on-site in San Francisco. Do they hire any remote folks?

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Sep 2018
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          Replying to @ClayNichols

          Somewhere around 30% or so of our engineering organization is remote. I’d encourage you to apply.

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        1. Ben Hutton‏ @relequestual 12 Sep 2018
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          I should have applied way back when. Was in chats before the UK launch. Even got sent a free tee! I probably wasn’t experienced enough then though =]

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