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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

May 1, 2017
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Process

Initially, I had a Skype interview where I shared my screen with the interviewer. The question was fairly straightforward, about allocating and deallocating servers, and I wrote unit tests for these as well.

To all those who wonder why they got rejected despite all their unit tests passing: I read somewhere online that this initial round is really just about testing your intuition for what makes good code.

A few days later, I heard back that they wanted to bring me onsite. I had a whole day of interviews. The questions were all interesting, practical problems to solve. No obscure algorithms or whiteboard coding were involved at all.

Questions

Allocating/deallocating servers

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 45 interview experiences for the Stripe Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

13%
Pass Rate

Stripe's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive64%
Neutral16%
Negative20%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Stripe's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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