Rippling·Frontend Engineer

Rippling Frontend Engineer interview experience

No offer

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United StatesPosted Jul 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After syncing with a recruiter, I got scheduled for a phone screen where I did live coding using a React template.

The task was to build a React app iteratively based on a sequence of prompts, starting small with a component and then expanding step by step.

What made it challenging wasn’t just the UI work—it was the amount of extra context in the existing codebase. I had to navigate helper functions, and it took me a while to realize that some of what looked like real logic was actually there to mock network calls.

I didn’t get an offer, but the biggest surprise was how much time the “scaffolding” itself consumed. Once I understood the codebase patterns, I felt like I could move more confidently, yet it

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