Location: San Francisco
Just got an offer from Rippling recently, not sure if I really want to go there since I've heard terrible things about the work culture there, but the offer is pretty good if they actually IPO one day. It was a pretty unique interview experience since the phone screen and onsite coding rounds both let me code with AI.
I thought it was pretty interesting how they let you use any AI you want, my interviewers told me I could use chatgpt, cursor, claude or any other tool I'm used to. You still need to run the code in the hackerrank but you can just copy and paste from your ide into it. I don't know if it's purely because of this, but the interview questions aren't your typical LC style problems, the algorithms aren't that hard and it's more like OOD.
I had a pretty good interview experience overall, the feedback came in super fast and all the interviewers were pretty friendly. I felt like the onsite went really smooth. For prepping, I used offerretriever to view the rippling AI coding questions and examples. That was helpful since I bascially got asked the exact question. I wasn't fully sure how they evaluate the AI coding performance, so I was glad to hear the good new from the recruiter afterwards. Here's some of the questions of this style I found useful to practice and would recommend practicing in your ide:
- (This is one I got asked) Food Deliveries
- Design Log Storage System
- Online Stock Span
- Design Snake Game
- (This is one I got asked) Card Game
- Exam Room
- Design Ride Sharing System
Based on the experience and interview feedback I think what worked well for me was not feeding cursor the entire prompt, I tried to come up with the design of how I want to approach it, and let cursor write the code and some test cases for me. Then I asked cursor to suggest some optimizations, and if they seem like they're big wins, but not overly complicating a simple problem, then only to implement them.
I have a Meta interview loop coming up, couldn't find too much about the AI coding rounds there, but since Rippling went well, I'll probably try and take a similar approach to those too. Meta also seems rough these days with all the layoffs, but the TC is liquid so I might prefer it even though Rippling seems less likely to do lay offs.
