Stripe Off-Campus SDE Internship CSV and Graph Interviews

Role: Software Development Engineering Intern
Result: Rejected after the second live round
Timing: Applied in August–September 2025 and completed the OA in October 2025. Later round dates were not shared.

The 60-minute OA used one implementation task with four parts. It involved transaction flow, string handling, and cache-like operations. The candidate passed 15 of 19 tests.

The first live round parsed CSV data supplied as one string and answered queries over it. The candidate finished two parts and discussed the third.

The next round mixed graphs and strings. Debugging took too much time, and the candidate was rejected. A later author correction said every round, including the OA, was 60 minutes.

The source did not preserve the CSV schema, cache behavior, query grammar, graph operation, or required output.