Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

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CanadaPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled in by a recruiter for a phone screening where we discussed my experience and what I was looking for.

It went well enough that I was invited to schedule a live coding interview. But just a few days before the interview, I received a generic rejection email out of the blue, even though my live session was still on the calendar.

On the day of the interview, I still showed up and did the coding work. The problem wasn’t especially difficult, more long than hard, with a lot of moving parts, and the engineer running it was nice. Even so, I couldn’t shake the weird feeling that something was off administratively. When I emailed the recruiter for clarity, I didn’t get an actual response.

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