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Software Engineer Interview Experience

July 1, 2021
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

This was a fairly standard hiring process:

  • Phone screen with a recruiter.
  • A two-hour session with the hiring manager, including a system design question.
  • A four-hour virtual on-site, featuring three coding problems and a behavioral interview.

I appreciated that they conducted the hiring manager and system design interviews first, as those can be the more difficult parts of the process.

Questions

Signed an NDA, so I won't go into detail.

The system design question was fairly standard, nothing overly complicated or surprising.

Coding questions involved:

  • Fixing unit test failures in an existing codebase.
  • An easy-medium LeetCode-style question.
  • A three-part exercise to code an HTTP client and process the response data.

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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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