Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into Stripe with a process that moved quickly from assessment into interviews, then dragged on with waiting that felt almost as stressful as the coding itself.

First I passed an online assessment completely. After that, I did a technical screen where I answered 2 out of 3 questions correctly, so I felt like I was building something but not fully locking in a strong signal.

Onsite then landed on a mix of coding, debugging, integration, and behavioral discussion. In the onsite coding round, I worked on an email-style problem, and the interviewer wasn’t super clear at times about how they expected me to handle a sorting detail around defaultdicts. I stuck with my reasoning and ended up correct. The debugging round was rough mostly because there was no

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