I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Stripe (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel)
Interview
First, there was a HackerRank challenge, then 3 coding interviews over Zoom, and finally the manager chat. I enjoyed all the coding interviews. They were not too difficult, I could use any language and editor that I wanted, and the interviewers were very nice and helpful. The final chat with the manager was also nice. I received compliments about my code during the coding interviews, and also the manager said he liked my CV a lot. Unfortunately, I didn't get an offer in the end and the feedback I got was very unspecific.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding problems were not really algorithmic but a bit closer to the problems that a software engineer might actually solve in an everyday job. They were tasks such as parsing some HTTP headers or making calls to a 3rd party API.
In the manager chat, I was asked the classical kind of questions such as the biggest challenges I encountered in previous jobs.
The interviewers were all easygoing, happy to give me more time to think or even to help answer the questions.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Stripe (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2025
Interview
Second round technical interview, called with an engineer. Went through multi part technical question about trees + nodes, leetcode medium to hard ish difficulty. Got notified that i moved on to the final round interview afterwards.
There were 3 interviews.
The first was a 1-hour technical interview that tests a Leetcode-style coding problem.
The second was two back-to-back 1-hour long interviews. The first of the two is similar to the first. The second is an integration interview where you have to write code to fetch (usually HTTP request) and process the data and produce some result.
The final interview is a 30-min long behavioural interview with an engineering manager.
Interviews focus on code quality and correctness rather than performance, write test cases during the interviews as quick tests for correctness.
Technical Interview screen, did not pass to get to second round. One long question with three parts and many test cases. Each part with directions and next part building upon previous code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Three part data structure scenario based question.