Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for an off-campus Software Engineer Intern track at Stripe around Aug–Sep 2025, and about a month later I received an email for an online assessment.

The OA took 45 minutes on HackerRank with a single, very long question split into four parts. It leaned heavily on string manipulation, but it also mixed in a design element that felt like transaction-flow thinking and an LRU cache–style approach. I worked through all the parts and ended up passing 15 out of 19 test cases, which gave me some confidence heading into interviews.

About a week later I scheduled two 45-minute coding rounds. In the first round, I parsed a CSV that was provided as a string, then answered multiple follow-up queries based on the parsed data. I got the first two parts

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