Rippling Software Engineer interview experience

I started with an initial technical coding phone screen, then moved into a deeper round, and finally got to a virtual onsite. That onsite included two separate coding questions plus a system design component.

One detail that helped was that the whole screen had to be shared, so it was transparent and there wasn’t any ambiguity about what I was doing. Also, I was explicitly allowed to use AI tools while working through the problems, which changed the stress level in the room—less fear of blanking, more about communicating tradeoffs and getting to correct code.

I didn’t receive an offer, and