Stripe
Payments infrastructure with sophisticated fraud detection and data systems.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Data Scientist
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Coding
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easy
Given a dataset of API request logs, write a Python script using Pandas to find the 95th percentile latency for each API endpoint, excluding requests that resulted in 4xx errors.
#Python
#Pandas
#Data Cleaning
Data Scientist
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Coding
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easy
Write a Python function to parse a deeply nested JSON column containing Stripe Connect onboarding metadata and extract the 'business_type' and 'verification_status' fields.
#Python
#JSON
#Data Parsing
Data Scientist
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Coding
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hard
Write a Python script to simulate a Monte Carlo model estimating the expected monthly loss from fraudulent transactions for a new merchant portfolio.
#Python
#Monte Carlo
#Simulation
#Numpy
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a function to parse a log file of Stripe API requests and return the top 3 most frequent API errors per merchant ID.
#String Parsing
#Hash Maps
#Sorting
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a function to compute the rolling 7-day average transaction volume for a given user from a list of chronological transaction objects.
#Sliding Window
#Time Series
#Arrays
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