Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

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Dublin, DublinPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process hit a rough spot during the technical screening.

Before that round, I’d moved through the early steps normally enough, but the real interview task was a model-driven problem that asked me to work with a few entities, iterate through them, and find specific information.

It felt like a good prompt for someone who’s genuinely comfortable thinking like an engineer rather than just recognizing patterns. The issue was that I completely froze—I'd never seen anything shaped like that in any intern or grad-style process, so my brain locked up when I tried to start.

By the end of the session, it was clear I hadn’t performed the way I needed to. I

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