Weird interview assignment for Stripe
I just ended an interview cycle at stripe for a platforms partner manager position. As part of the cycle, I had a take home portion which was not too insane - they were clear about what they were asking, time it should take, don’t go over 2 pages, etc. the last question though I was iffy - it was “what product would stripe partners profit from which stripe doesn’t have yet”.... Those types of questions can always go a couple ways. The fun way of let’s just do brainstorms and see what happens and then the methodical/thought out here’s my idea, here’s what hurdles there would be/gaining momentum for it internally, etc.. so I choose one product idea and did all of the above for that and the interviewer emails me to run a “debrief” with another teammate.. This was not a debrief, it was more like a “what else can you think of? What products did you maybe think of but didn’t include”” At that point I kinda just got annoyed.: like we spent 30 min chatting about the product I did actually decide to use for this project and now you’re asking me for more? Needless to say, left a bad taste in my mouth and I politely left the interview cycle after that convo. I doubt they are actually “stealing” product ideas from interviews but when the interviewer mentioned that the partnership we were working on in the assignment was her actual partner and how she “loved hearing all the ideas candidates have for her partner” I thought come on... really? Or is it me and am I being weird and everyone does this now in interviews.. did I over react by emailing the recruiter to tell her I’m out? Lmkk
I’m sorry about your experience. Do you happen to have a breakdown of the comp? For example, base, bonus, and RSUs. I’m in the process for StratOps and BizOps but recruiting is being vague about comp. Obviously Partnerships is different. But they’re all non tech roles.
Recognize this is almost a year later but i just asked upfront in the process for these #'s and they were straightforward. Numbers I got were 140-150K base + 60K equity for the US for StratOps
Yea, they were crazy with this role-play assignment when I interviewed with them last year. Situational play where I had to take 1X1's with a couple of their interviewers.
I am interviewing for a data analyst position where the job req said python and R were “nice to haves”. Then comes the take home and it is a time series/forecasting problem. I double check with the recruiter and he says that it can be done with SQL. Who in their right mind would try to do that in SQL?
can confirm, stripe’s take home assignments are a bit absurd
My written assignment ended up being the actual problem they were trying to hire someone to fix. They def ended up caring about it, and I relayed to recruiting that the should reference it more in the final loop as well. Sounded like they were planning to do that.
Do you remember the comp they provided for the role?
Stripe sounds pretty annoying to me as well. Especially their take home assignments definitely seem a tad shady.
Really shady like how can they be doing this w candidates and almost IPO ing?
@Oracle- easy, they can do it bc everyone wants to get in before IPO and they're willing to keep a process that's time consuming (for the applicant). How is that shady?