Stripe Off-Campus SWE Internship Transaction and API Loop

Role: Off-Campus Software Engineering Intern
Result: Offer
Timeline: Applied in September, screened in November, and completed the onsite on December 4, 2025.

Online assessment

The candidate parsed raw transaction logs, filtered error codes, and calculated latency and success metrics. The exact grammar and metric definitions were not preserved.

Practice: Filter Transaction Logs and Calculate Reliability Metrics.

Team screen

The screen used financial records, currency conversion, and balance checks. It rewarded working code and careful handling of changing requirements.

Practice: Check Converted Balances.

Onsite

The programming round scheduled subscription-lifecycle notifications. A later part adjusted future emails when a plan changed or was extended.

Practice: Email Subscription Scheduler.

The integration round fetched authenticated paginated data, transformed and filtered it, and posted it to another service. Follow-ups involved rate limits, idempotency, and different HTTP failures.

Practice: Complete a Paginated API Synchronization.

The manager asked about prior internship work, teamwork, quick decisions, and feedback. The candidate completed the onsite tasks and received an offer.