I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Stripe (New York, NY) in Jul 2022
Interview
Phone call with the recruiter and then a phone screen. I did not make it past the phone screen - it was exactly like how other people described it. A TON of text to read through to understand what they're asking you to code, and 3-4 parts of the question. It took me a while to sort through all the text they pasted to understand what they want -> read really fast as they expect you to move REALLY quickly. Also I was moving fast and the interviewer told me to just hop to the next part and I verbalized all the edge cases but then the recruiter told me I didn't code that so I suggest coding out all edge cases. They definitely care about that, and they want you to solve the question as fast as possible. All I can say is I would get good at coding in 15-20 mins so that when you're in an interview setting and stressed you have a 10 minute buffer. The question itself wasn't tricky, it was more the formatting that will trip you up.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Iterate through an array and based off the information in the array be able to tell something (really not complicated, basically an array of numbers -> kind of like the lightbulb question)
First an OA which is very hard, you have to be really fast. Then HR call and then phone round. Unfortunately I got unlucky and my interviewer was doing something else while doing the interview, he was muted and I had to ask for his attention twice. Of course in the end he said I did very well and one day later I was rejected. The phone round is not particularly difficult but you have to be fast and talking too much will cost you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They have a bunch of questions about string parsing, more often than not you will need to read a CSV so know how to do that, and know how to use the split function.
1 round of team screen - go/no go with a multi step problem
Design - classic interview
Integration - work on integrating some new systems
Bug bash - find and solve a bug
Programming exercise - same as team screen maybe a bit harder
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Stripe in Jul 2026
Interview
started with a quick recruiter chat (checking developer infrastructure know-how), followed by a 45-min live coding screen where they look for production ready code. onsite was 5 rounds: coding, bug bash, integration, system design, and behavioral. bug bash was the most interesting part. they just drop you into a random repo with failing tests and watch how you track down the root cause. integration is pure API work - reading docs and wiring things up, but they lean heavy on error handling. sys design felt very grounded. instead of drawing huge scalable architecture, we basically just talked through failure modes and backward compatibility.behavioral was standard. across the board, stripe cares way more about readable code and communication than tricky algorithms.for prep, practice reading other people's code and fixing bugs. i had a mock on prepfully with a stripe SWE to test my bug bash process, and it really highlighted some messy debugging habits i had. tough loop, but it actually feels like real engineering.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a stream of Stripe checkout session events, identify sessions abandoned at each step of the checkout flow and calculate conversion rates