Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying online, I started with a recruiter screen that was pretty informal—mostly background and interest in Stripe.

Next was a technical phone screen that looked like a one-hour pair-programming session. The prompt felt genuinely unique rather than LeetCode, and it centered on system design fundamentals, data structures, and databases. As I worked through it, there were follow-ups that checked edge cases and asked me to think through optimizations.

Then I moved into an onsite with five back-to-back rounds. I had a coding round with a real-world style problem that emphasized clean, efficient code, followed by behavioral with the hiring manager. A big portion of the loop was the bug bash: debugging a messy

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