I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Rippling (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2021
Interview
Probably the worst interview experience I ever had. So much that I was in fact annoyed by the end and didn't bother to ask any questions.
All three interviewers came unprepared.
Interviewer 1: Could not explain the problem statement even after asking and verifying each time I had to change my algo three times.
Interviewer 2 : Kept cutting me off during a system design. Gave minimal requirements but still kept saying my approach is wrong.
Interviewer 3: Kept going back and forth on the ask. Wanted backend to drive the UI. Are you serious?
All three interviewers were looking for the only solution the knew to the problem and any other approach was deemed incorrect. A bit arrogant if you ask me.
1 phone screen followed by 3 onsite rounds - 1 coding, 1 behavioral, and 1 project deep dive. Questions were pretty straight forward and fair. I did not get the offer though since I was out of practice.
- Coding screening
If successful:
- 2 more coding interviews
- system design interview
- product design interview; power point with previous project presentation
- behavioural interview
- 2-3 references
Typical process, HR screen then coding round (phone screen). Another coding rounds onsite and a system design. Then a project deep dive and team match.
They allow you to use AI in the coding round, which was strange because its a typical leetcode-style question. Claude was able to one-shot it.