I applied online. I interviewed at Stripe (New York, NY)
Interview
I had a hackerrank with one problem and then a recruiter screen. During the recruiter screen, she asked me about my work experience as well as what I'm looking for at Stripe.
First an OA which is very hard, you have to be really fast. Then HR call and then phone round. Unfortunately I got unlucky and my interviewer was doing something else while doing the interview, he was muted and I had to ask for his attention twice. Of course in the end he said I did very well and one day later I was rejected. The phone round is not particularly difficult but you have to be fast and talking too much will cost you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They have a bunch of questions about string parsing, more often than not you will need to read a CSV so know how to do that, and know how to use the split function.
1 round of team screen - go/no go with a multi step problem
Design - classic interview
Integration - work on integrating some new systems
Bug bash - find and solve a bug
Programming exercise - same as team screen maybe a bit harder
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Stripe with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 243 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Stripe overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Stripe as a Software Engineer according to 243 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 42%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 6%
Background check: 2%
Other: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Personality test: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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