I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Klarna (Stockholm, Stockholm) in Jan 2018
Interview
Whole process took about 1 month. First the recruiter contact me through Linkedin, sent me the job description and the company information. Second was a call with the recruiter to check my profile and skills. Sometime later a Skype call with a Software Manager (Team Lead) to check the technologies, recent projects and experience was a nice talk. Next week was a 15m online logic test and later a coding online assignment with 3 exercises. Next week a Code review with 2 Klarna engineers, first talking about the coding online assignment and then an online modification, possible refactor or new feature about the last exercise, we finalized talking about the recent projects, technologies and experience, again very nice guys and good talk. Finally I received the invitation for the onsite interview in Stockholm, the company pay for all, repeat the online logic test, next one interview with two Engineer Live Code Vanilla JS to change some features in a demo project and finally a interview about system design, important in the last one used and have experienced with technologies like AWS and Docker.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which technologies did you used for your recent project (pipeline and CI)?
it consisted of 3 parts, HR, technical, behavioural. The technical part was a leetcode hard problem but they did not expect a hard solution. The behavioural was related to leadership principles similar to most companies.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Klarna (Paris) in Oct 2025
Interview
I had a second experience with Klarna. After the ghosting of last year, Klarna reach out again for a SWE position. The same happened. After the first discussion, I have been told again to book a slot for the second round. And then... no news from anyone.
Second ghosting. Klarna has a terrible HR process and policy.
I feel like I dodge a bullet here. The work environment might be pretty toxic if it is aligned with the HR practices.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
questions about your past experience, and what are your expectations
1. HR and logic test
2. Tech - take home projects, a generic web project, and discuss
3. Design round
4. Manager round - discuss position and what to do