Stripe Internship Closing-Penalty Phone Screen

Role: Software Engineering Intern
Result: Passed the phone screen
Timing: The exact day was not shared. October 2021 follows the report month.

The screen had three completed parts:

1. Calculate the total penalty without choosing a shutdown time.
2. Find the shutdown position with minimum penalty.
3. Extract valid log segments and score each one.

The source used Y or 1 for one state but did not preserve the full symbol mapping or segment grammar. A fourth part was not disclosed.

Practice: shutdown penalty, best shutdown time, and log extraction.

The candidate spent about 35 minutes coding and testing and moved forward within two hours.