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Frontend Engineer Interview Experience - United States

March 1, 2022
Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

  1. Initial chat with manager to learn more about the team and the role.

  2. Tech screen involved building a small UI component to match a working example.

Virtual onsite consisted of:

  • Algorithmic programming exercise of a financial-themed problem.
  • Formal and in-depth manager chat, learning more details about the team and asking behavioral/past experience questions to determine culture fit.
  • "Integration" which consisted of programming API calls against real Stripe production servers with error handling and some data manipulation required.
  • Frontend system design for a real Stripe page, decomposing the components needed with their APIs and state, ensuring accessibility (a11y) and allowing for future changes.
  • Bug squash with a fork of a real open-source repo containing a bug, an issue describing the problem, and including failing test cases. I reproduced the failing test case, walked through the code to find the root cause, explained the cleanest and highest-performance solution, implemented it, and then ran the entire test suite to make sure everything worked.

The entire process from initial screening to offer was exactly 4 weeks.

Questions

Build a small UI component to match a working example.

Algorithmic programming exercise of a financial-themed problem.

Program API calls against real Stripe production servers with error handling and some data manipulation required.

Frontend system design for a real Stripe page.

Bug squash with a fork of a real open-source repo containing a bug.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Stripe Frontend Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Stripe's interview process for their Frontend Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral25%
Negative25%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Stripe's Frontend Engineer interview process in United States.