Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assessment, then moved into an onsite with multiple rounds that all felt connected by a “write, debug, integrate” theme.

The OA was straightforward enough—array and map operations—so I walked into the onsite with decent confidence.

The first onsite round was an AI programming task focused on writing a rule parser. I’d been told the AI component had changed only a few days before, so it took me a moment to calibrate expectations. I managed to write code and even put effort into test cases, but the feedback leaned toward my reasoning being unclear rather than just correctness issues. After that came a bug-squashing round where I used Python to debug a new problem; I struggled with the constraints and pacing and

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