Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After finishing my OA, I moved into a technical screen, and once I passed that, I got invited to a virtual onsite.

The onsite felt like a timed, concentrated block—about three hours total—with multiple technical components. I ran through an integration-focused round, then a bug squash round, and then a more general technical interview.

Before that, the structure had already established itself: the earlier technical screen was followed by the longer onsite loop, and after the technical rounds there was a manager chat. In the rounds themselves, bug squash was the hardest part for me; it required careful debugging under time pressure. The coding portion was comparatively more straightforward, though it

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