Interview
Questions

Why do you want to be a Product Manager at Stripe? What about increasing the GDP of the internet resonates with you?

Design an API for a restaurant delivery service. What endpoints would you create and why?

Design a checkout experience for a new user segment at Stripe. How would you approach this?

Walk me through how payment processing works at a high level. What are the key players in the payments ecosystem?

Design a tool for global merchants to manage payments across multiple currencies. What are the key features?

How would product decisions you make as a PM affect system performance or API latency? Give an example.

Before proposing a new feature, how do you map the ecosystem of users, incentives, and technical architecture?

If you were the CEO of Stripe, what new product would you build to increase revenue? Why?

Tell me about a product you built for developers. How did you approach understanding their needs?

Stripe values written communication. How do you use writing to clarify your thinking and communicate product strategy?

Which Stripe product interests you most - Payments, Billing, Connect, Atlas, or Terminal? Why and how would you improve it?

How should Stripe position itself against competitors like Square, Adyen, or PayPal? What is Stripe's competitive moat?

How do you evaluate architectural trade-offs like latency versus consistency when making product decisions?

Size the total addressable market for peer-to-peer payments in a messaging app. Walk me through your reasoning.

How would you prioritize features on the Stripe Billing roadmap? What framework would you use?