I left stripe to build stuff - by Yacine

And now I am a contractor

I left stripe to build stuff And now I am a contractor Yacine May 16, 2023 86 3 2 Share I've worked at stripe for two years. I learned a lot about scaling organizations and software. I've also made a lot of friends! Over my time there, I became less of a software engineer and more of a systems engineer. I learned to think about systems holistically - the fleshy users & engineers are part of the system. If I had to take one thing from stripe, it's that it's really easy to make large impact at scale. Just fix stuff. Just.. look! Why leave - shedding responsibility I decided to leave. Having to n

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