Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Dublin, DublinPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I kicked things off with an HR screening that lasted about 20 minutes.

After that, I had my first coding interview on Zoom that was planned for an hour.

About ten minutes into the challenge, the interviewer suddenly couldn’t hear me anymore. We were both still able to see Zoom picking up sound from my microphone, but the interviewer suggested I reschedule. I tried to stay aligned with what I needed to do, but the call effectively ended there—no technical continuation, just a hard stop.

HR never followed up afterward and I never got a rescheduled interview. It felt like the process just disappeared after that single disruption, and the lack of follow-through

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