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

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 7 Mar 2019
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    Patrick McKenzie Retweeted HydroxyCoreyQuinn

    This is one of the reasons why "Can you describe what I'd need to do to buy a $50 book?" is a deceptively good question to ask during job interviews (or earlier) for getting a read on how a company treats engineers, what their tolerance for process-for-sake-of-process is, etc.https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1103871152236060672 …

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    HydroxyCoreyQuinn @QuinnyPig
    Replying to @jonahhorowitz
    I object to the reality that you can be trusted with root in production, but not the judgement to make a $50 purchase.
    10:22 PM - 7 Mar 2019
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      2. Ryan Holdaway‏ @Ryan_Holdaway 7 Mar 2019
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        Replying to @patio11

        “When the receipt comes from your Amazon purchase, just go ahead and forward it to Expensify. You’ll be reimbursed in a couple days.” <- Pretty much the only right answer?

        6 replies 0 retweets 58 likes
      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 7 Mar 2019
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        Replying to @Ryan_Holdaway

        I would also accept "Ask for your manager's p-card", "Slack a link to the office manager and it will arrive magically", etc.

        2 replies 1 retweet 88 likes
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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 7 Mar 2019
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        Replying to @ankurfr @dopetard

        You're told early that the expense policy is "Spend the company's money like it is your money; we trust your judgment." At Stripe Japan, it would be "Post a link to the book in a Slack channel; it will be reactji'ed and arrive magically (because someone punches it in manually)."

        0 replies 1 retweet 75 likes
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      2. Jessica Glenn‏ @JessicaCGlenn 8 Mar 2019
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        Replying to @patio11

        What is a reasonable limit at which you'd expect most companies to have a more complex approval process?

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 8 Mar 2019
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        Replying to @JessicaCGlenn

        Is that a normative or descriptive question? Descriptively I think almost all e.g. Fortune 500s have more complicated approval processes. Normatively, they're wrong to do that. I like the "scar tissue" metaphor:https://m.signalvnoise.com/dont-scar-on-the-first-cut/ …

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      2. Kamil Choudhury‏ @kchoudhu 8 Mar 2019
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        Replying to @patio11

        The answer at my last job was “Your professional development is *your* business, and we pay you more than enough to fund it.” They were right.

        4 replies 1 retweet 61 likes
      3. Kamil Choudhury‏ @kchoudhu 8 Mar 2019
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        Replying to @kchoudhu @patio11

        On the other hand, when I asked for a 100K budget for a compute intensive project that could possibly lead to revenue, I had a check in hand in about two days.

        0 replies 0 retweets 52 likes
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      2. Rasty Turek‏ @synopsi 7 Mar 2019
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        Replying to @patio11

        We give our employees a credit card with $300/month budget to be used for books, conferences, ... If they need more, they can ask their manager.

        4 replies 2 retweets 106 likes
      3. Francisco H. de Mello‏ @franciscohmello 10 Mar 2019
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        How do you guys ensure the money wasn’t spent on other stuff?

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