Rippling Software Engineer interview experience

The technical part was practical and leaned into the basics—data structures, testing, and OOP came up directly, and the conversation stayed grounded in how I’d actually build and validate code.

After that, I had to walk through a project in more depth, which shifted the focus from just solving a prompt to explaining decisions and reasoning behind how things were designed. I felt fairly prepared because the topics matched what I’d been expecting from the earlier screen.

I didn’t make it to the final stage. The experience itself felt coherent and fair, and the rejection didn’t feel like I’d