Real Interview Experiences
Learn what to expect directly from candidates and interviewers who've been through it.
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RipplingSoftware Engineer“The process moves pretty fast. There are many interview experiences made public, so do your research. Overall experience was good. Many engineers with great backgrounds.”
RipplingProduct Manager · L5“The process was pretty rigorous with take-home assignments. They send you a prompt 24 hours prior to the interview date. Make sure you nail all the things they ask for. They also probe a lot and expect to change your decisions based on new assumptions.”
RipplingProduct Lead · L6“Easy enough. They go narrow and deep on the homework assignments. Answer the questions as is. Do not question the question. ”
RipplingProduct Manager · L6“After the recruiting screen, I had a call with a bar raiser / very senior PM at the company. Hiring manager interview where they dug into my past work experience, strategy, and impact The interview was focused on platform thinking and was pretty challenging but reasonable. The final round included an interview panel session with another PM of a similar level, the hiring manager, and the director of the team I was interviewing for. I walked them through my product proposal and they dug into the technical / UX trade-offs of the decisions I made”
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Sierra AIAgent Strategist“The agent design round was a live whiteboard: a new customer wants a cancellation agent, so map out the user journey and every system it needs to plug into.”
PalantirForward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer · L3“In the learning round they taught me one of their products from scratch, then kept adding constraints. They expected me to reason through it like I was already on the team.”
OpenAISoftware engineer“I still can’t tell if the final twist had a right answer, or if it was a test of how I handle something nearly impossible.”
StripeEngineering Manager · L6“What stuck with me was how fast it got into management judgment, like straight up asking if I'd actually managed a low performer and what makes someone staff in my eyes.”
AmazonSoftware Development Engineer, Level 4 · L3“It was the usual four-round AWS loop, but the HM actually spent time on how I use GenAI to fast track my workflow, and the Bar Raiser was basically all LPs with tons of follow-ups.”
GoogleSenior Software Engineer · L5“It was basically the most by-the-book Google loop possible: shortest path in a DAG, minimum meeting rooms, then a news feed design where they kept pushing on fanout, storage, and ranking.”
“My first technical round wasn’t with a person. An AI interviewer ran the whole thing, from logistics questions to reviewing my code line by line.”
MindbodySoftware Developer III · L5“The weirdest round was basically a PR review for an order-messaging system where I had to spot bugs and explain how I'd structure it so a Kafka-to-SQS switch later wouldn't turn into a rewrite.”
GoogleStaff Software Engineer · L6“The system design wasn’t generic. It was built around the team’s actual work: an AI agent that lets enterprise users search and query their data and documents.”
PalantirForward Deployed Software Engineer (Commercial)“You can’t treat coding and communication as separate skills here. Even after my code was right, they asked why I chose that approach and how I’d explain the trade-off to someone non-technical.”
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AnthropicSoftware Engineer, Safeguards · L5“The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.”
NetflixEngineering Manager, Tooling“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
