I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Klarna (Berlín) in Aug 2023
Interview
Last November, I received an offer from Klarna Berlin after successfully completing long interview stages. Interviews were fairly easy consisting of a leet code, intelligence test, system design, live coding, behaviour and teamfit. The recruiter asked me about my personal documents to draft a contract. They have also conducted my background check and everything was ok from my side.
After few weeks, recruiter emailed me that they are doing restructuring and hiring freeze due to which I have to wait. Whenever I contacted my recruiter, he assured me that he will give me an update on Friday. However, it gets delayed to Tuesday and then postponed again to the following Friday. I was so frustrated about this situation because I rejected some other offers in this time. This is clearly a worst candidate experience. Why the heck are you taking interviews and wasting candidate’s time when you don’t have enough money to hire people??? I started looking for new opportunities as I have had enough with all the lies they were telling me. They want you to understand their leadership principles, but it seems like they themselves are not applying them
TLDR
Worst candidate experience
Low salaries
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How have you used Klarna leadership principles in your job before?
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?