Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

My time inside the process felt long and intense overall, but the vibe I got was that it was fair and intellectually grounded rather than random, even when the bar was high.

The technical parts leaned away from pure DSA and more toward practical real-world engineering skills. I had rounds that tested how well I could work in my chosen language and environment, including debugging and structured data handling like JSON/CSV, plus using REST APIs. One portion felt like a multi-part set of questions that built on each other, where each step introduced a feature tightly connected to the previous