Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

New York, NYPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a long, multi-round process that felt intense from start to finish.

It included an initial recruiter conversation, then a technical screen that ran about an hour. After that, the later stages turned into several more hands-on rounds, including a mix of coding and debugging-style work rather than pure LeetCode.

One part that stuck with me was an integration and debugging round: I was given something to work through that involved making HTTP requests to specific endpoints in Python, and then tracing failures to fix issues. There was also a pattern of tasks building on each other across steps, so earlier mistakes could snowball. Overall the bar felt very high,

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