Rippling - Interview Experience - October 2025 [Reject]

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Round 1 - Phone Screen:

Driver delivery system :

addDriver(driverId, hourlyRate) : Add driver to system
assignDelivery(driverId, startTime, endTime) : Assign delivery to driver
getTotalCost() : Get total cost for all drivers

-- FollowUp --
payUptoTime(time) : Pay deliveries ending before time
getUnpaidCost() : Get cost from unpaid deliveries

Round 2 - Department Screen (HM):

Discussion on past projects, oncalls, standard behavioural questions.

Loop (in-person):

Round 3 (Machine coding) :

Design article voting system

addArticle(articleName)
upvote()
downvote()
getLast3Flips() : A flip is defined as a flipped vote ie user upvoted an article they downvoted before and vice versa

---FollowUp---
getArticlesByScore() - return all articles sorted by score (upvote - downvote)
getUserLastVote(userId)

Round 4 (Machine Coding) :

Design business expense rules engine - Standard Rippling problem.

Expense level rules, followed by trip level rules.

Round 5 (System Design) :

Design a news aggregator system like Google News.

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