Rippling Software Engineer interview experience

The whole vibe was that the problems were data-structure heavy, and I had to make sure the basics from school were truly second nature instead of something I’d be able to look up midstream. There was a lot of information to keep straight, and it made the work feel less like a single coding problem and more like endurance plus recall.

I spent time working through material beforehand, but once I got into the OA it still felt like the difficulty was the point. I didn’t end up moving forward, and the final feeling was that I hadn’t just underestimated the time—it was that the bar was mostly