Rippling·Software Engineer

Rippling Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Apr 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Once I got into the onsite-style rounds, it was a pretty clean sequence: coding first, then system design, then an API-focused round.

In the coding round, I solved the problem with two follow-ups, but the reviewer/interviewer struggled to get part of the initial prompt solved and required hints multiple times.

For system design, I actually started by trying to do it properly—clarifying questions and talking through estimates. But the interviewer steered me away from focusing on APIs and data models and told me to jump straight into high-level design. The feedback I received afterward was that I didn’t spend enough time on clarifying the API/data-model aspects the way they wanted. For the API round, though, I got a good

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