Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Rippling with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 55% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 11 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Rippling overall takes an average of 12 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Rippling as a Senior Software Engineer according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 35%
Phone interview: 29%
Skills test: 12%
Drug test: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Other: 6%
Presentation: 6%
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I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Rippling (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2021
Interview
This was one of the worst phone screens I've ever experienced. The screener was continually distracted by audible Slack notifications during our call. The "coding question" asked had little relevance to the work you would actually be doing on the job.
The interview prep document said to make sure to ask "clarifying questions" to "make sure you are on the right path." I asked several of these these throughout the interview and did not get any helpful feedback from the interviewer, including one rude response about a genuinely ambiguous part of the question.
Had I advanced to the interview round, I would have asked if the interviews would be similar gotcha questions with little relevance to the work, and probably opted out if so. Had I seen the other feedback on Glassdoor I would not have bothered applying.
I would not have much confidence that the people who are getting through this screening process know much about how to do the job in production.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I don't like when people share my questions on Glassdoor, and I'm not going to share here.
I applied online. I interviewed at Rippling in Jun 2026
Interview
Standard leetcode style question that is easy/medium difficulties. It was straight forward, AI is enabled too which is good, but not sure if it is a good idea to use it during the interview.
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