Excellent interview process.

Stripe tests the skills that you will actually be using on the job. In my case, there were:

• 2 domain expertise interviews
• 1 find-a-bug interview
• 1 general programming interview
• 1 manager chat

Three of the five interviews involved doing something useful on the computer, as opposed to scribbling sorting/tree traversal/DP code messily on a whiteboard.

Although I do better on algorithmic interviews than practical interviews, I think that the effectiveness of Stripe's interview process is leagues beyond the rest.

My only point of feedback would be that the bug fix interview could perhaps be a bit more involved (ideally, the bug fix could be more interesting than a 1 or 2-line change).

Overall, a very enjoyable experience.

(Laptop) Multi-stage programming question, similar to the phone screen.

(Laptop) Locate and fix a bug in a reasonably large code repository.

Interviews (whiteboard design & laptop) in your domain of expertise.

Retrospective + forward-looking conversation with manager.