Ramp Software Engineer interview experience

The interview itself was essentially a LeetCode-style hard coding problem, and it came with the typical 45-minute constraint that made it feel intense. I remember the emphasis being on getting the code to run correctly, not just describing an approach.

The tone was similar to other difficult rounds I’d seen: language choice was flexible, and I worked through something that required real implementation work—one challenge even involved building an in-memory database, and it came in multiple difficulty tiers where the later parts depended on the earlier steps. Even with solid effort, it was