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I interviewed for the position of Staff Software Engineer at Stripe in December 2023. They were hiring engineers in the Verification & Identity Platform team.

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Human beings are lifelong learners. For a newborn, the initial learning starts in the family. Later on, many of us undergo formal schooling, although these days, homeschooling is also an option. During my school days, most of the subject learning came from textbooks referred....

Multitasking refers to working on more than one task at a time. Although, as per research, it is not possible for humans to truly multitask like computers, we often hear this term at work. Among engineers, it comes up when...

Downtime refers to a period when a system/service is partially or completely unavailable. Based on the criticality of service and the customers you're serving, this can cause a loss of millions of dollars. I've been on the...

Just a week before the nationwide lockdown announcement in March 2020, our engineering team decided to try remote setup for one week. At that time (like many other companies), we had work from home policy for employees but...

Time is precious. Even billionaires can not get back in time. Not even by a second. That's why all of us like to enjoy life by spending time and money on things we like. And that's good. Different people get peace by doing different things - singing, dancing, travelling...

For many entry-level developers, the most exciting part of work is writing a shiny new feature, while rest of the things sound boring. Although writing code seems more than 90% of the work to them, but it is not true.

During my college days, I came across a code in C++ that prints map of India. The code was obfuscated and hence very hard to understand. It took me days to understand what magic it is doing, but at that time I thought complexity is good....

On a daily basis, we communicate with a lot of people - family, friends, office colleagues and often with end customers. A lot of this communication is in the form of asking questions and getting answers.

Many organisations face the issue of missed deadlines. The reasons for this might be a one-off case or repeated scenarios. Today, we'll try to understand how can we optimize full-stack product delivery as a team

Today, I'm explaining how we planned to transfer millions of rows "reliably" to a different service during our journey to services architecture.