Rippling Software Engineer interview experience

There was one interviewer, and another person joined as a shadower. The questions were straightforward on the surface—two data structures and algorithms prompts that touched basics like hash maps and stacks—but the follow-ups were the part that made it feel genuinely harder.

Before that technical round, the screening also had a chat element with the recruiter where I covered past experience and what the interview process would look like. Overall, it felt like the interviewers were measuring more than just whether I could state an approach; the follow-ups pushed beyond the initial framing,