The 2 secrets to Stripe’s hiring process, from the CTO himself #startup #founder #softwaredeveloper #softwareengineer #softwareengineerlife how to get a job in tech, startup hiring tips, big tech job tips

There are a couple of things that are very common across hiring for all roles at Stripe and in particular engineers and PMs. We do have structured hiring loops, but then we have a consistent way of evaluating talent. The other thing that these loops have in common is nothing is a trick question. We've created these exercises that are as close to real problems as we need to solve at Stripe as possible. I mean, for engineers, for instance, we've got several different coding exercises. They share their screen with the interviewer. You're welcome to use Google, ask your interviewer questions as you go along. We don't care. We just want to see the outcome. The same is true on the PM side. And we find that very valuable for actually just seeing how does someone attack a real problem that they would be solving at work? And will they want to do that in a way that is curious, digging into the details, collaborative with their interviewer and so forth? So that's the point. Structured loops that are consistent and then questions that are as close to the real job as we possibly can.