Stripe interview questions

Initial recruiter screen followed by hiring manager interview. After that second round, you are asked to create a presentation based on a hypothetical and review with hiring manager + additional department member. It was unclear to me why a 2nd person attended the presentation round, as they were on their laptop the entire time, asked no questions, and did not bother to look at the camera when the interview was concluded.

Applied for a Software Engineer role at Stripe Singapore. The process started reasonably. Received a HackerRank coding assessment, completed it, and was invited to a 30-minute recruiter call. On that call I was told I would be moved to a pair programming round and that the recruiter would send over the details to book a slot. That was over 3 weeks ago. Despite multiple follow-up emails from my end, I never received any response or update. No rejection, no rescheduling, no acknowledgement. Complete silence. What stood out during the recruiter call itself: there was no background discussion, no fit assessment, no questions about my experience or what I was looking for. For a company of Stripe's caliber I expected at least a basic screening conversation. It felt more like a box-ticking exercise than a genuine evaluation. Ghosting candidates after explicitly committing to next steps is poor candidate experience regardless of the outcome. A simple update either way would have been professional. Would not recommend applying if you value your time and expect basic communication standards from a recruiter.