Rippling Software Engineer interview experience

The prompt gave me a list of workers with an hourly rate and the hours they worked, and I was asked to write a function based on that data.

The interview came with pressure around how I approached the work. I remember being told to use an LLM to get started, and I was also told there would be different questions depending on whether I used one. That didn’t feel accurate once the actual question landed, and it threw me off for how the process was being managed.

The coding task itself had two parts, but I only managed to complete the first part during the time. I felt like I was making