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To: Thomas M. who wrote (357743)12/19/2025 5:23:07 PM
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I have never shared this publicly out of fear, but I was actually passed over for a job at Stripe in 2019 because I looked at the male interviewer instead of the female interviewer when I asked a follow-up question in my onsite interview.

I wish I could say I was joking, but I'm not: this was the actual feedback I received. I only got this information because I was friends with several folks high up at Stripe, but if it weren't for that I'd have had 0 information why communication with my recruiter completely stopped and I didn't get the job.

The reason it wasn't an *immediate* "no" is that there was quite a lot of disagreement internally since I performed very well technically. The problem was a "cultural" one.

In one interview, they gave me the codebase of an actual open source project and asked me to both identify a specific bug and fix it in 45 minutes. I completely finished it. Apparently that was quite rare; basically never happened. (Aside: I don't know if they still do this interview anymore but it was really fun).

Anyways, it's water under the bridge, and I'm over it, but until that happened I had no idea what had happened with regards to DEI in big tech. Through that point I'd been self-employed so completely shielded myself. It was a real wakeup call to me.

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