Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

The questions were framed around DSA and closer to what they’d see in a production environment, so it felt more practical than a generic algorithm test. The live aspect mattered too—I was thinking out loud and working in a way that matched how I’d actually solve problems under constraints.

Before the coding-heavy parts, I also had a recruiter conversation where it was mostly light discussion and timing: I spent about 45 minutes going through three coding questions that built off one another, and they were described as pretty easy but reading heavy. That segment ended with a short block where