TC: 400 YoE: 20 Role at Stripe: Solutions Architect I find it idiotic that I have to create an application before the interview process even starts given that I have a whole bunch of open sourced projects that they can easily take a look at and judge me by. This is the first company that kicked off the interview process with an app versus ending it with one Funny thing is that this app is gonna take me about three hours to complete but I have no motivation to even start working on it…maybe I’m just overloaded with other tasks… #stripe #interview
Depends on how bad you want the job
Next up in job applications: build a full end-to-end scalable service using our coding standards. We will test it in production to see if it works for us. This is step one in the job application process.
And we will not pay you for the code working deployed in production because it has some bugs
Is this a new process? They had coding, bug bash, integration, design, behavorial, & presentation rounds when I talked to them.
Different position from SWE, so it’s a different track.
Good call I would say. Companies have crazy expectations nowadays.
My biggest issue with this app based approach is, even after investing 3-5x amount of time compared to a generic phone screen, you might still get less out of it. Especially if/when the company rejects you and won't even provide a feedback. At least in s phone screen you can also sense what you're doing is working or not, has more binary nature to the outcome. In project based cases, it's very fuzzy.
This demonstrate that you are serious about working for the company and allows you to showcase your skills to the interviewers or lack thereof. This will allow interviewers to quiz you on choices and tradeoffs you made and further expand the project during the interview to get the feel/small slice for what's it's like working with you and vice versa. I personally really like this than leetcode shit which isn't natural to me but it requires time and commitment which I understand is not for everyone. The biggest downsize is you spend the three hours and they reject you there after and don't provide any feedback. Has happened to me recently but that's the game we play so I'm fine with that. I try to find and interview company like these every month to not overload myself. I'd rather do this than spend 6 months on leetcode before I start interviewing. To each their own.
But that doesn’t mean the leetcode is not gonna be part of the equation going forward
@oracle111, you're right. I let the recruiter know ahead of time that I don't do leetcode interviews. sometime it works sometime it doesn't.
I did a six hour take home they said it can be done in one. It was impossible to even get half way in an hour but I only did it because it was my first interview in four years and needed practice. I scored very high then failed the very next interview so it was not really useful in evaluating me. As for square what position did you apply to ? I have an upcoming code first assessment heard nothing about a take home.
what role is this for??? not standard for us at all
Solutions Architect
Op, what was the TC communicated by Stripe?
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Nice job, OP!