First screen was just a chat with the hiring manager about the role, expectations, and making sure I wasn’t a crazy person - was a very pleasant chat. Then we’ve setup a proper 45 minute tech screen: Interviewer and I enter the zoom chat at the same time, no chitchat, they wanted to dive right in as there are many parts - one weird thing, we were using coderpad because I wasn’t able to use my IDE, and the interviewer said they needed to see my mouse… so we share-screened my coderpad…. But I’m pretty sure coderpad let’s you see the cursor. Anyway, odd requirement, moving on. They immediately paste a wall of text, and sat quietly, I was taken aback, and asked if I should just read through, to which they nodded. So reading through the interview question, it was essentially a string parsing problem wrapped in a huge backstory. The questions following this were of the same calibre but just building on top of the first one - and also presenting in the format of walls of text. We do this dance 3 times and I’ve becoming less invested every time as the interviewer just sits there with no interactions. I verbally tell them how I’ll solve the 3rd question, and we ended the interview. I was disappointed, because Stripe was a really cool company in my mind, but if working there will feel like this, I’d rather pass (turns out they’d also rather pass on me) - so that’s that for now!

OA a day after applying then went onto technical interview which was roughly an hour (and very different from leetcode) then went onto onsite and hiring manager talk which was roughly three hours