They were looking for a founding engineer and I felt like I was a good fit but the recruiter was a bit rude and ended the Zoom call within five minutes.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Rippling
Interview
Did the system design with a very senior engineer for a senior role as the first step of the entire process. A one and done rejection. They didn’t gather any additional data points and even in that one segment wasn’t in any way interested in my strengths, only my ability to memorize YouTube style solutions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard memorized system design question you can find off of YouTube
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Rippling (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2024
Interview
It was a fully online process for the parts I had made it to. I had a recruiter call, and then did a technical interview, then a chat with the hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a SQL transaction system for a key-value store. So have a way to commit and rollback data from the DB, but also be able to update the DB without using commit and rollback (just write straight to it).
Step two was to enable this in a nested manner (one level deep).