I applied online. I interviewed at Stripe (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2024
Interview
Only managed to get to the first technical screen. Overall, the interview process is Application -> OA -> Tech Screen -> Technical Interview -> Behavioral Interview. It's important to note that Stripe cares about being able to produce working code fast. Time complexity / performance is only an afterthought.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During my interview I got asked a string processing question. Something along the lines of:
1.) you are given strings representing transactions. Process the data so that it can be read more easily.
2.) Now, aside from transactions, we can have rules which bar from certain transactions from happening. Return the final state after the rules get applied at certain times.
Note: I made the crucial mistake of going for the optimal solution which is O(nlogn) due to sorting based on when the transactions came in. Much easier solution would've been O(n^2). Sadly, in the heat of the moment I forgot to go for the obvious.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Stripe (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2025
Interview
Second round technical interview, called with an engineer. Went through multi part technical question about trees + nodes, leetcode medium to hard ish difficulty. Got notified that i moved on to the final round interview afterwards.
There were 3 interviews.
The first was a 1-hour technical interview that tests a Leetcode-style coding problem.
The second was two back-to-back 1-hour long interviews. The first of the two is similar to the first. The second is an integration interview where you have to write code to fetch (usually HTTP request) and process the data and produce some result.
The final interview is a 30-min long behavioural interview with an engineering manager.
Interviews focus on code quality and correctness rather than performance, write test cases during the interviews as quick tests for correctness.
Technical Interview screen, did not pass to get to second round. One long question with three parts and many test cases. Each part with directions and next part building upon previous code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Three part data structure scenario based question.
Software Engineering Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Stripe with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 83% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineering Intern roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 6 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 Engineering Intern according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 22%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
Personality test: 11%
Presentation: 11%
Skills test: 11%
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