Rippling Software Engineer interview experience

That manager round included a chunk focused on the project itself and then a shorter behavioral question segment right after.

The most distinctive part was the system design component: I had to walk through a visible fragment of how aggregation would work for near-real-time query, plus how they’d enrich data in a warehouse-like setup. It felt very concrete and layered—less abstract than I expected from a design round. By the end of the full sequence (phone screen to hiring manager to on-site), I ended up passing, and the whole thing felt internally consistent with the kinds of work the team