Rejected - Gave (AI, Bug swash, Integration)

Stripe·Software Engineer·Nov 2026
Online AssessmentRejected
+10 XP to the author · first 3/day

The first round (technical) was on HackerRank. The question was about alerts: you raise an alert when there are too many non-2xx API calls. It had multiple parts. I couldn’t pass one test case because I kept getting TLE, but I was still moved to the next round.

The next round was an online assessment with a similar question, where you had to print tasks and subtasks in a hierarchy. I’ve seen this one posted here too.

After that, I had three rounds:

Integration round: This was the bike map round, where you call a real API and send data to it. I think I’ve seen this question here as well.

Bug squash round: This is where I messed up. I got the request 307 one and couldn’t fix it. I wasted a lot of time, and even with hints I couldn’t find where the fix needed to go. Honestly, I got lost in the code. I wish I had practiced this.

AI integration round: This is a coding round where you work with AI. I asked the agent to write the code and reviewed its plan. I thought it was easy. There isn’t much to do; just make sure you understand both the question and the solution.

The last round should have been the hiring manager round, but I was rejected before I got to it.

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Interview at a glance

Company
Stripe
Role
Software Engineer
Rounds
Online Assessment
Outcome
Rejected
Interview date
Nov 2026

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