Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

SydneyPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Right after an HR call about availability, my process moved into a technical phone screen where the coding problem revolved around string processing, and the focus felt like speed and correctness.

I remember having to be careful about how I handled the edge cases while keeping the implementation efficient.

About a week later, I went into the virtual onsite. I had another coding challenge that was similar in spirit to the phone screen work, then an integration round where I dealt with APIs. After that came a bug squash round, and then a broader behavioral question set.

The onsite sequence was intense but coherent, and I really had to stay methodical, especially during the debugging part where the interviewer wanted to see my reasoning rather than just the final fix. By the end, I

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