The Stripe Coding Interview

What are people saying about Stripe's Interview

PROS

The work is very high impact and there are lots of opportunities to learn if you’re not already familiar with the fintech space
Few projects fail because we are so deliberate and thoughtful
Amazing leadership and virtually every role makes a huge impact

CONS

Not enough focus on productivity relative to other concerns.
The work life balance is *bad*. For how many products Stripe has, we are a very lean company. Too lean
Re-org is not uncommon and sometimes could be very often

What Stripe employees have to say about interviewing?

“Our interviews try to simulate the work you'd do on a day-to-day basis. We don't ask any purely algorithmic questions — no project at Stripe has ever required writing a red-black tree from scratch. We're also perfectly okay with people Googling around or collaborating with their interviewers.”

“The questions we ask are intended primarily to test what we call a person's "thought-to-code compiler". Namely, it's always fairly clear how a human would go about solving our problems, but the challenge is in writing clean, maintainable code to implement the relevant functionality.”

“Simply writing correct code isn't enough — the most common reason for doing poorly on this interview is not having a strong enough intuition around what makes for good code.”

What you can expect in the Stripe Interview

What are people saying about Stripe's interview?

“There's typically a technical phone screen followed by a full-day (virtual) on-site. The on-site consists of a series of interviews that test debugging, problem-solving approach, system design, and simple coding problems that have real-world applications.”

“The interview process is friendly to those don't want to spend too much time on leetcode-style questions.”

“The phone interview is not a LC style, but a practical string processing hashmap problem. Use my own IDE and share screen via Zoom.”

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