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Software Engineer Interview Experience

August 1, 2021
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Completed phone screen.

For the first round, the question was fairly trivial. I believe there are 3 parts to it, and if you don't complete all 3, then you're automatically disqualified.

The interviewer was a staff engineer and hard to connect with. They couldn't even answer "what is the company culture like". The person said, "I'm probably the worst person to ask"... what a red flag.

Maybe it was a one-off, but still.

Definitely pick a language you're comfortable with to write code and unit tests. The interviewer was basically mute the entire time, even when you're trying to show off a bit of collaboration.

Questions

Given a string of accepted languages from a request header and an array of strings of languages supported by the server, return a list of languages that will work for the request.

This involves three parts:

  1. Basic matching.
  2. Language-only strings without country codes.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 201 interview experiences for the Stripe Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

12%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive51%
Neutral19%
Negative29%

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

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