Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

It included rounds like BugSquash and integration work where I was expected to write code in the IDE against an existing repository. The intent made sense, but the reality of what happened to me was that the IDE didn’t behave correctly because of the repository’s unsupported JDK.

I spent a lot of time trying to get the environment working instead of making progress on the actual coding tasks. I found that frustrating because it didn’t reflect my ability to solve the problem; it reflected the luck of whether the tooling worked. When I finally got far enough, the round felt harsher than it