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AI Coding, Reconciliation, and a Debugger That Would Not Run

StripeSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026

AI coding: It's the rule parser problem from the forum. I used the Opus model and kept talking with the interviewer the whole way through. Honestly, in the moment I couldn't fully understand what the AI wrote either (a lot of the time I have to read Claude's code over and over before I get it, I'm just not that good), but I got the feeling the interviewer was also only half following and just nod…

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