“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.”