My first project as a new grad at @stripe was a service to turn chargeback evidence submitted through our API into PDFs and fax them to our banking partners. I'd never seen a fax in my life. It was nobody's dream project, and I was sure I'd get fired, so I went deep. I learned how much complexity we could hide behind a simple API, even when our banking partners still relied on paper faxes. Two years later, I got to build the first version of Stripe Radar to stop fraudulent chargebacks in the first place. You often don't get to choose where you start, but going deep, becoming the expert, and earning the trust to take bigger swings is still a great way to build a career. AI has changed how we work, but I don't think it's changed that playbook. @vikrams039 wrote the guide I wish I'd had as a new grad: