Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Stripe (San Francisco, CA) en sep 2019
Entrevista
1) Applied with employee referral
2) Contacted by a recruiter, the recruiter asked a few questions to verify my resume. Told about the company, culture and the teams.
3) The recruiter sent an invite to fill my availabilities on an online calendar
4) I received an auto email to that confirms one of the date/times for the phone coding interview
5) I took the zoom video conference and coderpad coding interview and successfully completed the coding in the given time(including the writing tests). I had more than 25-30 minutes to chat with the interviewer after the solution submitted. I asked a few questions and completed the interview. And the interviewer said that I will be contacted for the next steps in this week by the recruiter
6) The day after the coding interview, I received an email that says "Thanks so much for taking the time to speak with us. We've had a chance to sync as a team and, unfortunately, we've decided not to move forward with your candidacy"
7) I asked if there is a mistake or not but no respond received.
The result is negative:
To be honest, I surprised. If they didn't like my resume, why they moved forward with the phone coding and why they wasted my time and their time.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Multiple operations on one dimensional array of hash records. (While writing this review, I still have the active coderpad link but not sharing.)
15 minute call with their recruiter, followed by initial screening round, which was a coding exercise (not leet code, more like string/array manipulation). After passing that, I had to do 6 rounds of:
- System design: whiteboard problem, the guy was pleasant and helpful, but I bottled it.
- Backend integration: Tests your ability to develop a REST api, easy enough.
- Culture: General conversation over career and goals.
- Bug squash: They give you a failing test, and you have to fix it. I managed to fix all suites but I didn't perform very well here bc my methodology wasn't strong enough I believe, and the guy wasn't very pleasant (bit pushy but still professional)
The interview process was very long and exhausting, but it truly tests your ability as a software engineer without resorting to leet code.
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Stripe (Cary, NC) en nov 2021
Entrevista
Initial screen with recruiter and then a coding session with an engineer. Coding session had nothing to do with Backend engineering or API development at all. Nevertheless, I completed the challenge and all test cases within the allotted time and was able to ask questions to the employee. The next day I received a message that they were not moving forward with me. Not one was my past experience of 8 years asked about. Odd experience.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Scenario around a log of store closures (whether store contained customers or not) and different intervals of time the store was closed. Depending on the whether the store was closed and there may have been customers a penalty would be added. The goal was to estimate the max penalty based on the conditions. 3 different test cases to apply and test.
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 6 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Stripe en oct 2021
Entrevista
It was the first interview of a series (the recruiter said it would be more 5 or 6). The interviewer was a recruiter, but he did some technical questions too.
Preguntas de entrevista [3]
Pregunta 1
- Describe to me/show the projects you have worked with in your career;
- Why did you change your career?
- Why do you want to move abroad?
API Engineer specific questions:
- Describe to me what these HTTP responses mean: 200, 400, 500
- What is the difference between the 401 and 403 HTTP status?
- In a request, what is the header used to indicate the media type?
- What are the differences between Compile-Time and Run-Time Error?
- What are the main 4 types of methods you can use on a request?
Python specific questions:
- In Python, what type of data structure can you use if you want to have many elements keeping track of the order?
- In Python, how do you build a constructor method?
- In Python which of these structures have a way of tracking the order of the elements? List, Set, Dictionary and Tuple