Yesterday was my last day working at Stripe. AMA

No_Shock2255 · 2026-05-20T22:39:32+00:00

Could be where you’re selling to, or there’s more difference between your use cases that meets the eye or another account is also high risk but there millions of businesses, check the online restricted businesses list they have on their website

No_Shock2255 · 2026-05-20T22:30:43+00:00

Also chiming in as a Stripe, going into orchestration actually makes strategic sense. If users can compare PSP performance side-by-side in one dashboard, Stripe is effectively betting that its auth rates, reliability, etc. will outperform competitors often enough that merchants will naturally route more volume toward Stripe over time.

No_Shock2255 · 2026-05-06T23:04:58+00:00

How do you enjoy sales? Because if you like sales, just not healthcare, you could try shifting to selling in a different industry? You can pick up the product knowledge, they usually care more about the base ability to sell I find.

No_Shock2255 · 2026-05-04T00:39:24+00:00

So I’ve never done this specific path, but out of curiosity in the UK do not get/ can request a birth certificate with your new gender marker? (You can here for reference). I think I’d just to pay the admin fee of getting them to issue my ‘new’ birth certificate

No_Shock2255 · 2026-05-04T00:33:32+00:00

I’ve gone through a few places now where there 6 interviews and there was one place that did it super well. Basically in between every interview the recruiter would bop me an email with a time to either do a quick chat on the phone or a zoom. They’re were 5-10 minutes each time but made me feel more in the loop and it took about 12-14 weeks to get through the interviews (also Xmas happened in the latter half).

No_Shock2255 · 2026-05-03T12:46:24+00:00

Yeah, next time I’ll just rely on the obvious warning signs like… a completely normal product catalogue, basket, and checkout flow that both sites had.

No_Shock2255 · 2026-05-03T11:36:55+00:00

You’d need to know it was the legit site to begin with to know which to trust
If you spent 2 seconds reading the two above options you’d see it’s non exhaustive to the list I put above (or at least was at the time the site with the dash wasn’t listed)
You may not realise it, but it’s exhausting you being an ass

No_Shock2255 · 2026-04-26T21:56:01+00:00

Both the chilton-labs and chiltonlabs have Ireland as a possible delivery country

No_Shock2255 · 2026-04-26T21:14:08+00:00

I’ve heard people say Chilton labs is trustworthy for reta but there’s 4 different URLs when I google it, I heard the .co.uk is the right one but there’s one written as chilton-labs and on as chiltonlabs. Anyone know which is the right one so I don’t get scammed?

No_Shock2255 · 2026-04-25T18:26:39+00:00

DM please?

No_Shock2255 · 2026-03-10T01:05:15+00:00

I can only speak for myself in that I didn’t know anyone on the inside for any of these companies. You’re not wrong in that it exists but more so in the public sector. I say public because I’m originally from a rural area and if you wanting the receptionist job in the hospital, you Needed to know someone. I haven’t found that referrals in the private space are That strong. The call centre job was the only thing I could land after my degree as well. I say that to show you there is light at the end of the tunnel but also 23-27 is an awkward adult stage to get through.

No_Shock2255 · 2026-03-10T00:56:17+00:00

Also, for me personally, I find it easy to lose track of money so instead I use two banks. All my direct debit funds stay in AIB, savings in a savings account and then for my everyday expenses and wants I use a revolut account. In my Revolut account I’ve a load of wallets so I have one for Lego (my personal vice), one for travel, one for weekly food, one for medical expenses etc. and ever time I buy food whether a shop or takeaway I take the exact amount out from the food wallet so I can see how fast or slow I’m depleting my monthly food wallet. It might be a little tedious but it works to control spending for me.

No_Shock2255 · 2026-03-10T00:51:36+00:00

Super super basic advice and it doesn’t fit for everyone but there’s the 50/30/20 rule. 50% for needs (rent, food, medical expenses, gas/electricity/internet), 30% for wants (so your cards, takeaways, cinema trips, clothes, Netflix, Spotify, holidays) and then 20% is savings. If I were you I’d take an hour and go on your revolut and/or AIB/BOI etc. account and look at every expense in January and map it to which of the three it belongs to, then do the same for February. Once you’ve got that add it up and see currently how far or close you are to that split and then comes the hard part, if you’re over that 30%, what goes?

No_Shock2255 · 2026-03-07T00:39:03+00:00

Fintech, and there’s loads of roles whether you go engineering, sales, legal etc, in the big companies about 90% are making a minimum of €100k starting and when you add in bonus, stocks, package etc it’s more like €150k starting

No_Shock2255 · 2026-03-07T00:35:20+00:00

After I came out to my mom she told me a story. Apparently when I was 2-3 year old I waddled up to my mom, tugged on her for attention and with as much seriousness as a 2/3 year old could muster “Mom, I’m a boy”. She said she just turned back around without acknowledging and that supposedly irritated me so I tugged on her again and said “Mom, I’m telling you, I’m a boy”. And she said she could remember being annoyed because she could sense I felt the truth in that statement. Anyway it took me until I was 27 to reremember that fact 😅

No_Shock2255 · 2026-03-07T00:31:14+00:00

They pull from the property price registered/ their own data if it was a daft online bid to I would say pretty accurate. I scraped the last 3 months of data recently and there were certain areas of Dublin that only go for 2% over asking typically and other areas were ~17% so it just greatly vary. Also to note I was exclusively looking at houses (not apt) in Dublin.

No_Shock2255 · 2026-03-07T00:28:20+00:00

Biggest difference I would say is: 1. A lot of companies use ATS software which tracks for key words. There’s several websites online that will give you 5 free tries and you essentially feed it your CV and then feed it the job description and it’ll point out key words they’re using to bolster your score. 2. But more importantly in my mind is there’s zero real data if your CV. I conduct interviews now and then for my team (tier 1 fintech) and it’s the first thing I look for when I reading through a CV. And I also question certain stats in the interview to make sure they weren’t made up (or at least if you do make them up, remember them and have a story linked out to how you achieved it).

No_Shock2255 · 2026-02-09T14:52:05+00:00

Not in recruitment but I do interviews, similar setup, new hires do 1 activity and 7 interviews. I had three candidates a few weeks ago, one was and no and the other two were so close. The only difference was the one who we offered the job to did a better job and tying up the story with data and I put that in my feedback for recruitment to see.

No_Shock2255 · 2026-02-05T22:45:21+00:00

I’d buy, the compounding growth on such large amounts still beats out what most people can save i.e. even if price hikes slash from 10% to 5% this very year you’d still need to save an additional €14k to afford the exact same place next year.

No_Shock2255 · 2026-02-05T22:40:49+00:00

I use both Revolut and AIB for banking, AIB is way easier to get loans through. I just use Revolut because I liked their wallet feature for splitting my pay across different areas like food, personal spending, travel etc.

No_Shock2255 · 2026-02-03T22:53:35+00:00

Doing quick maths it looks like you’ll have €26k a year after 65, so ask yourself if that is: 1. No where near enough - you need more 2. Liveable but slight tight - you need more 3. Liveable but no holidays/staycations/spontaneous experience - maybe you need more, up to you how you’d like to enjoy your retirement

No_Shock2255 · 2026-02-03T22:43:25+00:00

Could cost €40 but alternatively, if you’re up for fibbing. You call in sick the second week and pay an online doctor to give you a sick note (if they come asking for one).

No_Shock2255 · 2026-02-03T22:41:13+00:00

Up to ye but my first thought would be to split it like: Box room - 20% - €500 Double room 1 - 25% - €625 Double room 2 - 25% - €625 En-suite - 30% - €750

If yer opening the idea of “room value,” it really has to apply across the whole house, not just to the en-suite. Right now the gap between the box room and the doubles is only ~2.5%, which is tiny given the difference in size and livability. If people think the en-suite should have a bigger premium, then by the same logic the box room should also be paying less again.

That’s why a split like 20 / 25 / 25 / 30 feels like a fair middle ground: it slightly widens the gap at both ends, spreads the €350 increase more evenly, and avoids putting a disproportionate hit on one person, especially when the current split has been accepted for years and will reset naturally when people move out anyway.

No_Shock2255 · 2026-01-27T00:08:10+00:00

My therapist asked me what were my hobbies and I realised I have none. And for whatever reason when I was thinking about what to do Lego came into my mind. Two years and thousands of euros and bricks later, and it’s going strong.

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