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I had my team screen interview today at Stripe and I don’t really know if it went well.

I managed to solve the first 2 parts, the text was really long and I started to ask questions quite early on, so I can understand the problem better without spending too much time reading the page long text too many times. When I started asking questions, my interviewer replied that I should stop asking and read the text more carefully.

The first task was a string manipulation problem, that I solved in 10-12 minutes, with correct solution from the 1st run, all edge cases handled in my opinion (the interviewer didn’t call out any missed edge case)

The second part was a Set problem which had as a prerequisite the first part, which I solved in 10-15 minutes, all edge cases handled from 1st run and discussed unit tests.

At the 3rd part, my interviewer proposed that we shall discuss the solution first because the problem was quite tricky and then if we have time, code it. The text was hard to understand and I spent a solid 5 minutes trying to read through it. After I thought I understood it, I replied with my solution and the interviewer didn’t understand what I meant. After 10 minutes of back and forth, him responding with something else and I was quite sure that I was on the right track, I asked to code it and he said that he doesn’t want me to code the first part of the problem for now and to discuss it further conceptually. After he finally understood what I meant, he said I was close but I was missing a detail in the text. I proposed an alternate solution right away and he said that on a high level the solution sounds good, but didn’t code it.

Then, the final part of the interview came where I asked questions.

The interview took 1h5m or so. Do I have a chance to pass to onsite?

I had my team screen interview today at Stripe and I don’t really know if it went well.

I managed to solve the first 2 parts, the text was really long and I started to ask questions quite early on, so I can understand the problem better without spending too much time reading the page long text too many times. When I started asking questions, my interviewer replied that I should stop asking and read the text more carefully.

The first task was a string manipulation problem, that I solved in 10-12 minutes, with correct solution from the 1st run, all edge cases handled in my opinion (the interviewer didn’t call out any missed edge case)

The second part was a Set problem which had as a prerequisite the first part, which I solved in 10-15 minutes, all edge cases handled from 1st run and discussed unit tests.

At the 3rd part, my interviewer proposed that we shall discuss the solution first because the problem was quite tricky and then if we have time, code it. The text was hard to understand and I spent a solid 5 minutes trying to read through it. After I thought I understood it, I replied with my solution and the interviewer didn’t understand what I meant. After 10 minutes of back and forth, him responding with something else and I was quite sure that I was on the right track, I asked to code it and he said that he doesn’t want me to code the first part of the problem for now and to discuss it further conceptually. After he finally understood what I meant, he said I was close but I was missing a detail in the text. I proposed an alternate solution right away and he said that on a high level the solution sounds good, but didn’t code it.

Then, the final part of the interview came where I asked questions.

The interview took 1h5m or so. Do I have a chance to pass to onsite?