No More Leetcode: The Stripe Interview Experience

In light of the recent layoffs, which I think Stripe handled well (CEO’s note to employees), I wanted to share my interview experience with them.

I applied online directly on their jobs site. The next day, a recruiter reached out to me and said they wanted to chat.

Overall, the process was this:

• Recruiter Screen
• Technical phone screen
• Onsite
• Offer (+ negotiation)

Recruiter Screen

I gave a quick introduction about who I was and what I was looking for, and the recruiter told me about the team and what sort of projects I’d be working on there. Typical stuff.

Technical Phone Screen

For my technical phone screen, we did a programming question. The recruiter emphasized it’d be a “pair programming” session, where it should feel like the interviewer and I were collaborating on a problem — for the most part, this was true. The interviewer gave me a hint when I was deciding which approach to take to solve the problem, and we had a pleasant discussion about tradeoffs I was making in the solution I decided to implement.