Stripe·Software Engineer

Stripe Software Engineer interview experience

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CanadaPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an online assessment that ran for about an hour.

The prompt felt more application-based than a traditional LeetCode-style DSA problem, and it was designed in a way that let me choose the language I used. After that, there was a technical screen that also lasted about an hour.

The coding itself focused on implementing something more than solving a short algorithm trick. The whole setup made the work feel like it was closer to real development tasks—writing code to meet a concrete requirement rather than just proving I could recall patterns.

I didn’t get an offer, but the format felt consistent and not overly gimmicky. Even with the

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