Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

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United StatesPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The OA phase ended up being relatively easy for me, but it came with long setups and lots of description to parse.

The OA felt like it required patience, and it wasn’t just quick logic with a short prompt.

After that, my first technical team screen featured a non-LeetCode, real-life style question with an emphasis on data parsing and manipulation. There were multiple steps, so I had to keep track of transformations and make sure I didn’t lose correctness as the problem progressed.

Even though the difficulty level overall didn’t feel brutal, the amount of working through the steps and the parsing component took attention. I didn’t receive an offer, but the experience felt like it tested how I handled

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