Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks.
Waste of time. Recruiter was nice, quickly scheduled phone screen. Had a positive experience with the engineer. Onsite was poorly organized and interviewers wanted you to fail.
Onsite had 5 rounds:
- coding (similar to phone screen, implement a function, had a few parts)
- bug squash
- behavioral
- system design
- integration
Last interviewers for integration did not even show up. I can feel the "senior" engineers' vast ego from my monitor. At times they were not paying attention to what I was doing and I was talking to the void. I asked a simple clarifying question on system design - sorry, could you repeat? Asked me about a "missing" component in my design - I drew it 2 minutes ago. Some deep dive questions were interesting and it showed the engineers had some depth, but it was domain specific and they did not have the breadth to do general deep dive. Would not want to work on a team with other senior engineers like this. Just read the posts about politics and people stealing others credit. I came from a FAANG with a bad reputation, but even there nothing quite as bad happened.
Questions
What is your proudest project?
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Stripe Work Experiences
- 4.0Overworked, very little diversity in the engineering organization, but hopefully a big payoffSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJune 4, 2021Pros: The work is very high impact, and there are lots of opportunities to learn if you're not already familiar with the fintech space. Most of the big projects I've been on so far have been fun to work on. There are also a lot of talented, kind, and helpful engineers at Stripe who are really nice to learn from. I really enjoy my manager and the folks on my team. The money + bonuses are ~ok~. Pretty standard for a pre-IPO unicorn, but the goal is that there will be a big payoff later (fingers crossed).Cons: The work-life balance is bad. For how many products Stripe has, we are a very lean company. Too lean. There's just a lot of work and very, very tight deadlines, very fast-paced, and not enough engineers and product managers to do all of it. If you want WLB as an engineer, join an infrastructure team, not a product team. There is little to no investment in making the engineering org more diverse. This was surprising to me because of a lot of public-facing company statements, but don't be fooled like I was. People (at least in the eng org) do not care about diversity. HR sucks. And of course they would, I guess. But I had a really negative experience with HR where I walked away feeling completely devalued and gaslit. Dev environments kind of suck and make the work a lot slower than it should be.
- 3.0Decent, but messySoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesAugust 3, 2023Pros: Good coworkers that are supportive and intelligent. Not too many ORMs.Cons: Bad managers and too much politics. Not much actual work being done. Just peacocking about who can write more docs.
- 4.0A good place to workSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesApril 7, 2025Pros: A growing company. Lots of really smart people.Cons: Can be chaotic. Prone to burnout.
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