Rippling Software Engineer interview experience

I passed the first coding round, but the difficulty ramped fast and it became less about finishing and more about getting every test case right. In the second leetcode round, I managed to solve the problem idea, yet the automated tests didn’t pass, which ended up getting me rejected later.

What was especially discouraging was how stark the comparison felt with what other people were able to do in the same round. Some candidates solved multiple questions, while I couldn’t even get through an entire hard problem cleanly. By the time the results came in, I felt like I’d been caught by the