How difficult is the Stripe SWE interview?

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applWanabe

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applWanabe
Oct 11, 2021 20 Comments

From what I understand, popular companies do LC interviews predominantly to efficiently filter out the insane amount of applicants they get.

However, Stripe is super hot rn and yet have coding exercises for interviews. How is that scalable? Is the coding exercise super difficult? Do they tend to bias towards alumni of prestigious former employers and universities?

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  • Apple
    ocean1234

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    Amazon
    ocean1234
    Interesting. I guess it rules out stripe from my search. Good to know.
    Oct 11, 2021 8
  • Stripe
    qFQJ73

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    qFQJ73
    I don’t think knowing the solutions to specific LC problems helped me but the grind of getting faster at coding and talking out my approaches under time constraint from practicing LC I think def helped my Interview.
    Oct 11, 2021 1
  • What do they ask? Write rest api in spring boot or express etc?
    Oct 11, 2021 4
    • Amazon
      anti-amzn

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      anti-amzn
      I wish I could help u, but can't recall the question. It was a hashMap question though.
      Oct 11, 2021
    • ANZ / Eng
      applWanabe

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      applWanabe
      OP
      @Thermo from what I hear, it’s not SpringBoot specifically but some sort of API that uses some highly connected Graph model layer and you have to perform operations using it. Don’t quote me on that tho
      Oct 11, 2021
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    • ANZ / Eng
      applWanabe

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      applWanabe
      OP
      Ugh that’s super disappointing to hear :( I didn’t realise that was even a thing tbh

      Although I suppose there are people who rote learn the LC top tagged company solutions and regurgitate on the whiteboard, so two sides of the same coin really
      Oct 11, 2021
  • Stripe
    ILCR38

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    ILCR38
    All Stripe’s coding interviews (debugging, integration, technical) bias towards people who write great production code. We don’t ask LC questions. No need to prepare for our interviews. If you’re good at your day to day job and can explain concepts clearly, you’ll excel.
    Oct 15, 2021 2
    • ANZ / Eng
      applWanabe

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      applWanabe
      OP
      What do you think you did well during your interview? Where do you think you could’ve done better?
      Oct 15, 2021
    • Stripe
      ILCR38

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      ILCR38
      I did well on creating modular, easily-maintainable code and explaining the reasoning out loud. I could have done better in the SDI round due to a lack of understanding of some SDI concepts
      Oct 17, 2021