Rippling·Engineering Manager

Rippling Engineering Manager interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Posted May 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with an engineering-style interview that immediately felt off.

I spoke with two engineers who didn’t even state their ranks, and the person leading the discussion showed up late. Even the small talk felt hostile—there was a rude exchange aimed at the newer person, and it set a combative tone right away.

The technical round involved designing a system: a simple API to power a front end and fetch data from a data store populated via a stream from a web crawler. Even though the recruiter had told me to show depth in my technical knowledge, I was told not to go too far into details. On top of that, I only had a tiny window to ask questions, and I kept

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