Klarna
Offers pay-later and instalment payments at checkout, a shopping app and payment services for merchants.
Stockholm, Sweden
1,000 to 5,000
1,000 to 4,999 peopleNot known
Not known
Not enough signal to say. Check the careers page directly.How they hire
Klarna says the steps depend on the competence and country you apply for. It puts the whole process at roughly four to six weeks from the initial chat. Because hiring runs through pipelines, the exact team is often decided only in the second round. The only readable copy of this page dates from December 2023, so check whether the reasoning test is still required.
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Application to a recruitment pipeline
OfficialApplication screenKlarna hires through broad recruitment pipelines, so job ads are deliberately general and the specific role is matched to you later. A referral from someone at Klarna can improve your chances of an interview.
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Online abstract reasoning test
OfficialAptitude or cognitive testRemoteA required online test for every applicant that checks how you analyse information, spot patterns and solve abstract problems. You move on only if you pass.
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Initial chat with a recruiter
OfficialRecruiter screenA first interview about your experience and career interests, used to work out which roles in the pipeline suit you best.
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First round interviews
OfficialTechnical interviewA set of interviews focused on the skills the role needs. Engineering candidates may be given a coding test. This round also covers times you have shown the values and behaviours Klarna looks for.
CodingValues - 5
Second round interviews
OfficialPanel interviewBy now you usually know which team you would join. Several interviewers go deep into your skills and your understanding of the organisation, and you learn about the team and its problem areas.
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Offer and team introduction
OfficialOfferYou meet your future team and agree the terms: start date, salary and, where relevant, relocation.
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.
Worth reading before you apply
From the Sefism resource library, matched to the rounds above.
A short text course on algorithm analysis: all five asymptotic notations, time and space complexity, best, worst and average cases, and three methods for recursive complexity including the master theorem. It suits students and self-taught developers who can write working code but freeze when an interviewer asks for the time and space complexity, or who want to understand why one solution is faster than another.
- Job search
- DSA
- CS fundamentals
A foundations course that builds eleven core data structures from the ground up (arrays, matrices, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees and BSTs, hash tables, hash sets, heaps, graphs and tries), then covers sorting, searching, greedy and divide and conquer. Every chapter has practice problems, flashcards and an assessment. It suits students and career switchers whose foundations came from tutorials and who find pattern courses move too fast.
- Job search
- DSA
- CS fundamentals
A practical course on negotiating compensation in tech, from preparing and building a strategy to specific tactics, the full package beyond base salary, handling multiple offers and asking for a raise. It has tailored sections for fresh graduates and experienced engineers. It suits anyone with an offer coming, and anyone who has ever accepted the first number out of discomfort.
- Career
- Job search
A paid, human review of your resume by experienced engineers and hiring managers from large technology companies, returned in three to five business days with line-by-line suggestions, proposed rewrites of bullet points and applicant tracking system advice. It suits engineers whose resume is already reasonably solid and who want detailed feedback from people who screen engineering resumes for a living before a job search.
- Career
- Job search
Hacker101 is HackerOne's free web security training hub, combining video lessons with a hands-on capture-the-flag exercise, aimed at both programmers curious about bug bounty work and more experienced security professionals. It is entirely free with no account paywall, and pairs naturally with reading HackerOne's own vulnerability disclosure guidelines before attempting any real-world bug bounty programme. Bugcrowd runs a similarly free alternative, Bugcrowd University, worth knowing about even though this entry focuses on Hacker101.
- Career
- Job search
- Testing
The paid learning platform from Alex Xu and co-authors, built on their System Design Interview books. It offers text-based courses with detailed diagrams on system design, machine learning and generative AI system design, mobile system design, coding interviews and more. It suits engineers preparing for technical interviews who learn best from visual explanations and want worked designs in one place rather than scattered posts.
- System design
- Backend
- Job search
What it pays
Nothing collected for this company yet, and nothing worth guessing at. A made-up range is worse than no range because people negotiate against it.
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.
How to actually get seen
Get some practice with abstract reasoning puzzles before applying, because the test is a hard gate for every candidate. Read Klarna’s principles and prepare a real example for each, as they come up from the first round.
Sources
- Klarna websiteread 2026-09-22
- Klarna careers pageread 2026-09-22
- Klarna Careers: application processread 2026-09-22
Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.
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