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.
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Negative experience
Easy interview
Application
I interviewed at Rippling (New York, NY)
Interview
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 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.