I applied online. I interviewed at Klarna (Stockholm, ) 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 through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Klarna (Berlijn) in Oct 2023
Interview
1. Initial talk with internal recruiter, it went fine.
2. Take home coding challenge, two exercises, which were reviewed later by a Klarna engineer, async. They later answered that my solution was overengineered, thus they would not proceed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two programming exercises in a codility style platform, but no fancy complex algorithms needed.