Stripe

Standard process, this was a few years back. 1. Recruiter reached out to me over email. 2. Set up time to chat about the role. 3. Received coding phone screen invitation. 4. Didn't pass. 5. Got a rejection email after that.

The interview took a week. The first round was a pair programming session, involving a normal String parsing question with different use cases. Preparing Java Strings would be sufficient for the interview; it was a pretty straightforward question.

The entire interview process was clearly laid out for me from the start. Round 1 * 1-hour manager chat about previous experience and work * 1-hour systems design problem Round 2 * 1-hour technical presentation section: You will write a 1000-word br