I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Klarna (Milán) in Jan 2022
Interview
HR contacted me by seeing my LinkedIn profile
1. Brief interview with the recruiter. He was a nice and helpful guy. (Passed)
2. Offline coding challenge (Passed)
3. Live coding session (Passed?)
There were 2 questions in almost 1.00 hr.
Face-to-face interview with Engineering manager and a Senior Dev, they asked me to explain in detail a project I recently did pretending I had to do an onboarding for a new colleague.
The second part was a live coding session where I had to find an algorithm to solve a specific problem. (takes around 30 minutes). The question was related to a chessboard game.
Honestly, I had just 30-35 mins to do that. I honestly cannot understand what the question is asking at the beginning as the interviewer only shows a block of text and ask me to read. asking him to scroll u and down at the end, I understood the question. Yet I struggled to come up with a suitable algorithm in the first 20 minutes until I set the pieces together. Then in the end I come up with a solution that works best. A binary tree algorithm was ideal and shared my thought process on how it can be solved. I know it works perfectly, but there was no time and they stopped me saying we don't have time and we should stop it here. ( I honestly have no idea how they expect to solve such a difficult problem in an instant. And I don't know what they are after).
4. Behavioural interview. (???)
Is basically a face-to-face interview with two Engineering managers.
They asked me about my background and leadership experience.
Which of our leadership principles best describes you?
Who do you admire (it could be a public figure)?
Which project are you proud of that you did in the past?
After some chats, I felt a little uncomfortable with all the repeated questions and the number of questions.
The entire process was smooth and well handled by the Recruiter. Appreciate the Recruiter's work
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Which of our leadership principles describes you?
2. Who do you admire?
3. Have you ever had a time that you delayed any task? if so why?
4. Which project are you proud of that you did in the past?
I applied online. I interviewed at Klarna (Estocolmo, ) in Mar 2026
Interview
The process involves several stages. The first is an online logic test to evaluate your pattern recognition skills. Subsequently, HR will invite you to a remote online meeting so they can get to know you better. They do not hire for a specific team/role and will instead see if you match with any of their teams.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What do you know about Klarna
2. You experience.
A few steps with HR. Then 3 different technical steps:
- Challenge to complete at home
- Live coding
- System Design
The system design interview was the longest, about 2 hours. The idea was discussing how to implement a new feature on a website.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please implement a new endpoint on the codebase that we sent you. Also, fix the issues present on the code.
I applied online. I interviewed at Klarna (Milán) in Oct 2024
Interview
Il contatto delle risorse umane mi ha spiegato tutto del processo in anticipo, affinché mi fosse chiaro. Dopo averci conosciuti ho partecipato a tre colloqui tecnici da remoto, su: il disegno dei sistemi (system design), la programmazione (live programming) e il comportamento (STAR behavioural interview).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Quali sono i vincoli per un'integrazione in un iframe e quali quando è un componente embedded?