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Types will win in the end (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How to Be a Successful Developer at Stripe

I knew that I had this passion for types and programming languages, but I didn't quite understand whether there was a way to go from just being excited about it to being able to actually do it professionally. So one day I asked and said, Hey, are you guys have an opening? Can I come help out? And it just so turns out that because this team had been staffed by like these super experienced people that they actually really wanted somebody who had zero experience in the first year of working full time at Stripe. We've worked on a handful of different things over the five years: making the type system better, improving the editor, improve the type tracking experience. Less than 1%

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