Did the Stripe PM loop about six weeks ago. Target role was a senior PM on one of the financial services teams. Sharing the question breakdown since PM interview content for Stripe is weirdly sparse online.
Recruiter screen: Pretty standard. Why Stripe. Background walkthrough. Comp check. They asked whether I had experience with payments or financial infrastructure products specifically, which made sense given the team.
PM phone screen with hiring manager: 45 min. Two main topics.
First: product sense. She gave me a real Stripe product and asked "what would you build next and why?" I chose to talk about merchant dashboard improvements and fraud visibility for smaller merchants. She pushed hard on prioritization. What's the most important user segment? What data would you look at to validate the need? What does success look like in 6 months?
Second: a past project deep dive. She wanted to walk through a product I launched end to end. Not your best one. A real one with real trade-offs. She asked: "What did you get wrong?" twice.
Onsite (4 rounds): Product design: design a product for a specific Stripe customer type. I got small business owners using Stripe for the first time. Analytical: here's some data (basically a table and some trends), what's happening and what would you do? SQL not required but knowing the shape of the query helped me explain my reasoning. Strategy: if Stripe wanted to expand into X market (they gave a geography), how would you think about it? Values: same as the SWE loop from what I can tell. Real stories, real failures, specificity.
What Stripe PM interviews test that others don't: they want you to think about both the developer experience (the API/product engineers build on) AND the end-user experience. Most PM interview prep ignores the API-consumer layer entirely. Don't.
I'm waiting on the debrief call. Not sure how it went.