I applied through other source. I interviewed at Rippling
Interview
Standard process with a recruiter screen, tech round, system design etc. The person taking the tech screen couldn't listen for a second. I could very clear tell that they were switching between 'chatting' internally and barely listening to whats happening in the interview, resulting in me having to repeat myself a couple of times throughout the interview. I should have honestly ended it half way through. one of the worst displays of professionalism.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
the usual questions for the recruiter screen and you can easily look online for what they give the screen rounds.
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.
I don't think they have any real roles and seem super comfortable with just wasting everyone's time including their engineers' who seem exhausted for their process.
I applied through a referral and actually had quite a bit of overlap. I got a totally disinterested panel interviewer who didn't even seem interested in interviewing. I had to pry the question out of him and he pasted the question incorrectly and started a discussion about rounding without really knowing why we needed to talk about it. I did get all the test cases correct however.
Think I dodged a bullet here.