Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

Those sessions were coding plus system design, and they felt like they were trying to gauge how I approached realistic problems end to end. People I spoke with were friendly and genuinely helpful, which made the whole thing feel less adversarial than some loops I’d done before.

Once the assessment rounds were done, my process turned into a longer loop. I went through an hour-long “integration” coding session where I worked with an existing codebase and interacted with external APIs, then a shorter adaptability behavioral discussion. After that, I had a technical discussion where I presented