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A New Coding Question, a Blank Editor, Never Reached Part 3, and Didn't Pass the Phone Screen

StripeSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

It seemed like a new question — I don't think the interviewer had interviewed with this one much before 😅, he wasn't very familiar with it either. Communication took quite a while, and sometimes the shadow and the interviewer disagreed with each other 😅 Part 1 gave a main() and a function header — you just had to implement the function. The interviewer initially said the output was an integer, bu…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.