Online Assessment

A Five-Part OA Simulating a Connection Load Balancer

StripeSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Dec 2025

This was a connection management simulation question for a Jupyter Server — essentially implementing a simplified connection router / load balancer that manages connection state across multiple backend target servers based on different request types (CONNECT, DISCONNECT, SHUTDOWN, etc.). It's not a big system design question. It's more of a small-scale system design / stateful system simulation —…

Shared by a candidate · reported Dec 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.