u/Studmuffinnn

Got Deel's full operations interview process in 2026 after 2 years of experience in Big Tech. In total, the interview was five rounds, two weeks long, but still I got rejected after the final round.

Round 1: Recruiter Screen (20 to 30 mins) Background, motivation, and role fit. Next steps came within 48 hours (noticed they have a super fast response time) so if they take longer just move on.

Round 2: Director of Operations (45 mins)

-How you built or improved an operational process from scratch

-How you handle competing priorities across multiple teams

-What success looks like in an operations role at a high growth company

Round 3: Take-Home Assignment (2 to 3 hours) An analytics and operations challenge tied to the role.. Addressed both the surface question and the underlying problem in the deliverable.

Round 4: Team Member Interview (30 mins) Cross-functional collaboration, process ownership, and how feedback is given and received day to day. We also reviewed my take home with the same interviewer.

Result: Got an email saying I got rejected after a few weeks. Happy to help anyone (questions in the comments).

Went through the full Stripe Account Executive process in 2026. Sharing it here with you guys.

Round 1: HR Screening Call (30 mins) Background, motivation, and sales history. No scenario work. Covered experience selling technical products and what success looked like in the previous role.

Round 2: Hiring Manager Interview (45 to 60 mins) Questions from this round: "Tell me how success was measured in your last role." "Talk about a time when you led a successful negotiation." "How do you decide when to stop pursuing a prospect who won't commit?" "You are hired and put in charge of 75 accounts. How do you prioritize them and stay organized?"

Round 3: Back-to-Back Loop (Full Day) Two to three interviews back to back, each covering a distinct area. Behavioral round covered client mistakes, upsell scenarios.

Case study: recover a stalled sales deal, walked through live. Mock discovery call: live simulation with an interviewer playing a prospect.

Round 4: Final Interview (45 mins) GTM strategy scenario: develop a market entry approach for a new product segment. Covered pipeline structure, target customer profile, and a first 90-day plan.

UPDATE: Offer received within one week of the final round.

Takeaways: Rounds 1 and 2 run on STAR with sales-specific outcomes attached to every answer. Round 3 requires preparation on Stripe's product suite, specifically payments infrastructure and BaaS.

I vibecode most of the day now. Claude open constantly, agents running, re-running prompts when the first pass isn't quite right. I probably send more queries before lunch than I used to in a month of googling.

There was a thread a while back about the water and energy datacenters pull for all this and it's been stuck in my head since. What actually surprised me is that it's not the training cost anymore, it's the sheer volume of everyday inference now that everyone's on these tools all day.

I'm not going to stop, it's my entire workflow at this point. But I can't really square caring about climate stuff and then burning tokens like they're free.

Do you all just not think about it? Is there a way to use this stuff that's less bad, or is that just cope?

Applied off-campus through Google Careers and got a referral from a connection. Resume got shortlisted which was a good start.

Round 1 – Recruiter Screen (15 min) Just background, projects, favorite languages. Nothing technical.

Round 2 – Technical Interview 1 (45 min) DP problem. Solved it and passed all test cases but got stuck on the follow-ups. Used Interview Coder during this and it helped me get through the main problem without blanking. The follow-ups were where it got hard because they were more conversational.

Round 3 – Technical Interview 2 Hard graph problem. Got a solution but couldn't optimize in time. More follow-ups I couldn't handle well. Got the rejection email a few days later.

Overall the OA and first round are very manageable with the right tools. The follow-ups in round 3 are where things fell apart for me. If you're prepping for Google intern, spend time on graph optimization and be ready to explain your approach out loud.