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Adyen

Builds a single payments platform that handles online and in-store payment processing, acquiring and risk for merchants.

Not known6 stage process documentedFounded 2006
Headquarters

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Headcount

1,000 to 5,000

1,000 to 4,999 people
Work model

Not known

Hiring

Not known

Not enough signal to say. Check the careers page directly.
Where to apply
Careers pageWebsite

Ask for a referral to Adyen

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
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Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Open internships

How they hire

Adyen says these core stages apply across teams and regions, but for some roles the team interview and the leadership interview happen in the opposite order. The process takes a little over a month on average and depends on the role. You must wait 30 days before reapplying for the same role.

  1. 1

    Application review

    Official
    Application screen

    Adyen aims to reply within five business days of receiving your application.

  2. 2

    Recruiter screen

    Official +1
    Recruiter screen

    A recruiter asks about your background and the experience that matters for the role.

  3. 3

    Team interview

    Official +1
    Culture fit

    A longer conversation with someone from the hiring team about the role and its responsibilities, your experience and how you like to work.

  4. 4

    Technical skills test

    Official +1
    Technical interview

    Engineering candidates take a technical test (other roles do a case study presentation). Adyen says it recreates a real-world scenario with real problems and wants to hear how you would reason through them.

  5. 5

    Leadership interview with the direct team

    Official +1
    Hiring manager

    A leader from the team you would join talks with you about why you want to join Adyen.

  6. 6

    Final interview with a senior executive

    Official +1
    Senior leadership

    The final round is with a senior executive from the Management Board or the Global Leadership team.

What comes up

Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.

  • The Adyen Formula

    Official +1

    Adyen bases its hiring on its eight guiding principles and expects candidates to know them and link them to their own experience.

  • Knowing the business and its products

    Official +1

    Beyond technical skill, candidates should understand Adyen’s business and products and show they have done their research, including on why they want to join.

  • Reasoning through real problems

    Official

    In the skills assessment, how you break down the problem and communicate matters as much as the final answer.

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What it pays

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Add to the Adyen page

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What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

Universities they recruit from

No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.

Add to the Adyen page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

How to actually get seen

Read the Adyen Formula and some of Adyen’s case studies or earnings material, and prepare STAR stories that link your work to those principles. Use the recruiter’s prep calls to ask what the technical test will involve.

Sources

Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.

Interviewed at Adyen? Fill in what changed.

Processes change, rounds get added, tests get replaced. If what you went through was different from what is on this page, tell me and I will update it.

Want me to refer you here?

Send me the role, your CV and a few honest paragraphs on why you fit it. Where I know someone inside and your profile matches, I will make the introduction. Where I cannot, I will tell you why and point you at the route that does work. You get an answer either way.

Ask for a referral to Adyen

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
  • Nothing you send here is shared with anyone without you agreeing to it first.

If you found the opening, paste it. It tells me which team you mean.

A Drive, Dropbox or personal-site link is fine. Make sure it opens without a request for access, or I cannot read it.

At least a short paragraph. This is what I would be putting my name behind, so specifics beat adjectives.

Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Add to the Adyen page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

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