Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

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CanadaPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into a 60-minute HackerRank interview and got one big system-design exercise broken into five progressive parts.

The scenario was about building a server load-balancing system, and I had to design the data structures and algorithms behind policies like least-loaded, round-robin, and consistent hashing.

As I worked through each part, the exercise forced me to think through the full lifecycle, not just the happy path. One key requirement was implementing a shutdown operation that would remove a server by its ID and then reassign any existing connections away from that server while using the same balancing logic as before. I had to handle edge cases like what happens when no servers are available, and

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