Stripe final experiences

[fierce ledge]

hey @indigo seal @orchid trellis i heard u had stripe finals

could you share your experiences? i heard its kinda hard & they throw a lot on you

@slim belfry @vague hornet @frigid orbit congrats on ur offers!
is there anything you could share regarding this? how did u do so well

[brisk zealot]

I had a Stripe final too

Everything was easy except for bug squash for me

[fierce ledge]

what was hard about it

[fierce ledge]

u had it?

i thought there were multiple bugs

"How many bugs? I can’t tell you that (you’re not finding a million little bugs)"
"You’ll navigate a large codebase to spot (and fix!) bugs in the code."
these imply multiple bugs

i guess this doesn't really matter that much

i've been thinking that i would just go in, run the tests, see what doesn't work, and then bugs would be found quickly

[fierce ledge]

lol i thought it couldve been a valid concern

it seems like this final will be pretty easy but u just have to be able to speak well

similar to the phone screen

although i felt i did terrible in that in terms of explanation

idk

paging successful people @slim belfry @vague hornet @frigid orbit

last time i pwomise

[vague hornet]

I think the final was pretty reasonable

One of those that you can't really prepare for though just gotta get a good nights sleep lol

[fierce ledge]

i see i see. i didn't do that for phone so i'll be sure to do that hehe thank you

[brisk zealot]

how many parts did you complete on the bug squash round? and in the other rounds?

[indigo seal]

i fucked the final cuz i was too nerves

i had a very ambiguous coding qn so it was weird to me, first time i got it wasnt expecting it

bug round just state ur hypothesis and the interviewer will try to help at times

integration was easy

[brisk zealot]

@indigo seal have you heard back from Stripe after the onsite?

[indigo seal]

no

i probably failed

it was a week ago

[orchid trellis]

where did you hear that from? i never even applied

[fierce ledge]

oh damn

i searched in 2022_grad_process for !process stripe and i thought i saw your name, maybe i got confused with someone else. my bad

[ashen heath]

i didn't do well on bug squash, only got thru 1 bug rip :/

integration and coding exercise were pretty positive tho I think

we'll see what happens

[brisk zealot]

@ashen heath have you gotten a manager chat?

[fierce ledge]

there were multiple bugs?

gl

[ashen heath]

I just had onsite a few hours ago

[ashen heath]

There were 4 bugs, but you’re not expected to find all of them

I think 2 would’ve been solid. Idk what the avg is

[ashen heath]

@brisk zealot the difficulty of the bugs I’m sure is also not the exact same across interviews

[fierce ledge]

I assumed it would be the same, since you're working in a large codebase & i assume they wouldn't wanna put in all that work to make different versions for interviewees

i guess it's not that hard to make variations since you're just creating some bugs

have u heard things from ppl that make you think its different across interviews?

i guess it doesn't really matter that much

[ashen heath]

i mean all it takes is one wrong variable or line to create a bug that can take forever to track down

i guess I don't want to say too much but from my experience it seems like there can be many different versions of bugs you need to track down. i don't know if some are harder than others but I'd assume so

[polar ravine]

as a data point, i found the first bug during the last minute of our session (so I didn't have time to fix it) and still passed

[fierce ledge]

holy shit

[fierce ledge]

yeah that makes sense

[ashen heath]

omg you're giving me hope thank you 🙏

[fierce ledge]

thats definitely true, i feel like i find bugs really quickly but maybe im just going to get shit on

i guess i will just see

[ashen heath]

when's your final? @fierce ledge

[ashen heath]

bugs in your own code or in code worked on by dozens of people that you were just introduced to a few minutes prior?

[brisk zealot]

I wish Stripe hadn’t given me a manager chat, given that they’ll reject me anyway

[fierce ledge]

yea lol the former

[ashen heath]

well that's a lot different

cuz you wrote everything yourself and you know how everything works

understanding other people's code especially in such a short amount of time is way different

[fierce ledge]

yeah definitely i don't think my skill with smaller, familiar codebases will mean much

[ashen heath]

i think people will tons of large open source projects experience will be good

[fierce ledge]

i guess more specifically im counting reading code fast & connecting stuff

oh yea i bet so

[ashen heath]

cuz you'd constantly be looking at large codebases and connecting the dots

i mean it's totally possible that you'll find it not that bad

i personally feel like it's a challenging thing to be able to do tho

[fierce ledge]

i get ya, hopefully it goes well