I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Stripe (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2018
Interview
I was referred by an investor, and quickly received an email from the recruiter, Rick. He had an informational interview, usually over the phone, but since I worked close by we just met in the office. Next was an interview with a PM on the team. The interview aske some pretty good strategy questions I hadn't had before. A few days later, Rick let me know the interview was positive and prepared for a full on-site.
Prior to the on-site, a call was scheduled so that I could receive feedback from the first interview and tips for the on-site. They didn't want to surprise anyone for the interview so they gave me a sense of the topics they wanted to discuss.
The on-site was well-organized, with back-to-back interviews from engineers, PMs, and designers. Everyone was friendly and visibly experienced in their fields.
I didn't perform as well as I would have liked in the on-site, and didn't get the offer, but it was still a great experience meeting people on the team. I highly recommend Stripe to others based on the people I met there.
Went through recruiter screening and first case interview. Case interview was tough, relies on you having rehearsed a structure and practiced a lot (which I didn’t). Open ended, and very vague.
Advised that the process was 5+ weeks long. Lots of stages. Seems bloated and slow - not promising if you want to join a fast moving company.
Did the assesmsent first, it was straight forward, string parsing and authentication question, was very long, Make sure to understand the question properly before you start. It took about 40 mins to type my code out, didnt have a lot of time to debug afterwards
Recruiter is very clear about process. Interviewing is very time consuming. There are various phases. Screening is the first step and then you go into the interview cycle where various elements of the PM role are analyzed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About products I liked, the expectation was that I would be able to talk about them with a broad product sense.