1p3a Experience · May 2026

stripe staff machine learning engineer interview experience and tips

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Interview Experience

Preliminary round:

ML design - typical fraud detection problem.

ML

coding instead of classification problem,the learning problem has two regression tasks.

Things to note for ML coding

Among regression labels, one set is negative values, the other set is positive. The range of two labels differs quite a bit, so normalization is needed after flipping the signs if learning both tasks at the same time.

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Preliminary round:

ML design - typical fraud detection problem.

ML

coding instead of classification problem,the learning problem has two regression tasks.

Things to note for ML coding

Among regression labels, one set is negative values, the other set is positive. The range of two labels differs quite a bit, so normalization is needed after flipping the signs if learning both tasks at the same time.