I applied online. I interviewed at Klarna (Stockholm, 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 (Berlin) 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.