I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Stripe (Amsterdam) in Mar 2023
Interview
I had the first phone interview which was a technical round. My experience has been the same as the numeroud other reviews here. Looks like Stripe does not care about the feedback towards their interview process and have no intention to improve on it. The question is rather simple but the description is a long story that one has to read and comprehend. Then you need to keep scrolling up and down and implement the solution. The tough part is not the coding problem but rather the interview environment. The interviewers constantly interrupt, do not let you think and rush you a lot, a lot of time(almost 25 minutes) are wasted with interviewer joining late, introduction, rules, reading the problem before you actually begin the coding. You need to solve 3-4 parts of the question in 25 minutes as the last 5-10 minutes need to be kept for questions and talking. The interviewers have no patience. They DO NOT let you code and keep confusing you, making you nervous and anxious and spoiling the entire thought process. Like several others have mentioned they pretend as if the interview went great and you made it but soon, you receive a rejection mail with a feedback saying you are not quite there. Why? No idea. Feedback was positive but still, try again later. This is a pathetic way to treat candidates. I would strongly recommend to not prepare at all for Stripe interviews as it is just a stroke of luck depending on your interviewer capabilities. You won't be allowed to shine and your skills don't even matter in this process. I am not trying for this company again. Left a very bad impression of the crowd there.
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