"He said that all the interviews he did before Stripe involved a whiteboard and he found these tests impractical. "We believed and believe today that that's actually not a great way of simulating what it's like to see a real engineer do work," Singleton said. "At Stripe, we designed an interview process where folks would actually be on a laptop with all the tools that they were used to having and pair programmers with an interviewer.""
""For candidates looking for engineering jobs, tools like LeetCode have become a right of passage in the hiring process. The platform's practical questions often are used to weed out first-round applicants, saving time and preventing questions from getting leaked. At Stripe, Singleton crowd-sourced interview questions from high-achievers at the company. Engineers also didn't have to write out their code on a whiteboard, he said on "The Peterman Pod.""
Stripe replaced whiteboard coding interviews with laptop-based pair-programming sessions to simulate real engineering work. Interviewers and candidates used the same tools and environments as on-the-job, enabling realistic problem-solving and collaboration. Interview questions were crowd-sourced from high-performing engineers at the company instead of relying on public platforms like LeetCode. Original, hand-crafted questions reduced the incentive for rehearsed answers and aimed to ensure fair assessments when leaked problems appeared. The process emphasized practical coding, communication, and tooling familiarity over artificial, whiteboard-focused algorithm puzzles. The approach prioritized candidate experience and closer alignment with daily engineering tasks.
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