Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Bengaluru, India
August 29, 2026
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months.
- HR Screening: Focuses on your past work experience, how you leverage AI tools, and your leadership stories.
- LLD Round: Asked to design a Rules Engine for Corporate Credit Cards. They actively encourage AI usage, but the questions are structured so you can't just one-shot them with AI. Plan out the architecture yourself first, use AI to generate the initial code, and then thoroughly review it—make sure you understand every single line and how it works.
- Department Phone Screening: A conversation with your potential future manager focusing on past projects. They want deep technical details and compelling stories, particularly around handling financial data, so be ready to clearly justify your design and tech choices.
- Another LLD Round: Asked the Camel Cards / Poker Hands Evaluation problem.
- System Design Round: Asked to Design Google News. Whatever component you drop into your architecture, make sure you actually know how it works under the hood. I brought up CDC Debezium but couldn't explain its internal mechanics when asked. I also mentioned using a Cache without specifying the TTL or eviction policy, and brought up Kafka without being able to answer what happens during consumer rebalancing when a new consumer joins. Know your components thoroughly! Definitely practice all the relevant questions on PracHub.
- FrontEnd / Web APIs Round: Focused on building infinite scrolling along with standard React questions. Practice all Rippling-tagged questions on GreatFrontEnd and similar sites. Coding Prompt: Given a paginated API to fetch colors, load all colors on the page and fetch the next batch via a "Load More" button. As a follow-up, remove the button so scrolling down automatically triggers the next fetch (classic infinite scroll).
Questions
Rules Engine for Corporate credit cards
Camel Cards - Poker hands questions
Build infinite scrolling - You'll get a paginated API to fetch colors, load all the colors in the page, and load the next page when Load More button is clicked, as a follow up, dump the button and when user scrolls down the next page of colors should be fetched.
System design - Design Google News
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 11 interview experiences for the Rippling Senior Software Engineer role in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Success Rate
9%
Pass Rate
Rippling's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Bengaluru, Karnataka is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Positive55%
Neutral0%
Negative45%
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Rippling's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Rippling Work Experiences
5.0
Lot of learning and opportunities to grow
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
September 14, 2023
Pros: - Manager and peers don't limit you to work on things other than your product.
Cons: Work timings can be messy, as you will have to collaborate with teams in other countries.
5.0
Completing 5 years at the rocketship
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
June 9, 2024
Pros: Some of the pros of working at Rippling have been:
1. A lot of learning, since the company is fast-paced and the problem statements we are working on are complex. Pretty often, we get a chance to stumble upon something new and learn from it. Particularly for me, since I have been working on the "Device Management" product, it has been a great learning experience to deep-dive into the behavior of the operating systems of macOS and Windows devices, and it has taught me a lot.
2. Really solid engineers. I joined Rippling straight out of college after completing my Bachelors in 2019 and I didn't have any industry experience except my internships. From that period until now, I have met so many individuals, and every time I had something to take from them, especially the engineering team here, they are really solid. A lot of senior engineers on the team have been previous co-founders, and they come with a diverse experience set, and it's not just engineering.
3. One other great thing about Rippling has been that the efforts an individual puts down for a particular stream of work never go unnoticed. Also, the results of someone's hard work show results pretty quickly, whether it's a new feature or fixing a bug. Within days or weeks, we start getting positive feedback from customers, and that's generally the ultimate result for everyone in the company. The leadership in the company also doesn't fail to recognize individuals who are putting in their best, and they get rewarded too.
4. The company's leadership being quite visible. This is a really important trait to have, as it helps individuals get a top-to-bottom view of how the company is operating, what the business plan is, what the overall engineering roadmap is, and other things. And this has been the case with Rippling from the start. It makes everyone be on the same page and then operate as required, which ultimately brings in more success and helps the company expand its business.
Cons: 1. Working in Rippling sometimes gets hard. We can find ourselves in a situation where we need to ship a feature, but an unknown issue has come out. Now, we can't extend the deadline, so in those cases, we need to push a bit harder and get things done. Again, the impact of such features is quite big. The same can happen with an escalated customer for a support ticket, so it becomes important to resolve the issue for us to have the customer's trust in Rippling.
2. One other point which might bug sometime is the timezone difference. As a product team, some members can be in a different timezone. So, for folks in IST, some meetings can be a bit late in the evening. In our team, we have been trying to minimize it by trying to get most of the work done by async messaging.
4.0
Great Pay, Good Tech
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
July 29, 2023
Pros: Great pay, good tech team, good stocks.
Cons: Nothing much to say, actually.
- 5.0Lot of learning and opportunities to growSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaSeptember 14, 2023Pros: - Manager and peers don't limit you to work on things other than your product.Cons: Work timings can be messy, as you will have to collaborate with teams in other countries.
- 5.0Completing 5 years at the rocketshipSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJune 9, 2024Pros: Some of the pros of working at Rippling have been: 1. A lot of learning, since the company is fast-paced and the problem statements we are working on are complex. Pretty often, we get a chance to stumble upon something new and learn from it. Particularly for me, since I have been working on the "Device Management" product, it has been a great learning experience to deep-dive into the behavior of the operating systems of macOS and Windows devices, and it has taught me a lot. 2. Really solid engineers. I joined Rippling straight out of college after completing my Bachelors in 2019 and I didn't have any industry experience except my internships. From that period until now, I have met so many individuals, and every time I had something to take from them, especially the engineering team here, they are really solid. A lot of senior engineers on the team have been previous co-founders, and they come with a diverse experience set, and it's not just engineering. 3. One other great thing about Rippling has been that the efforts an individual puts down for a particular stream of work never go unnoticed. Also, the results of someone's hard work show results pretty quickly, whether it's a new feature or fixing a bug. Within days or weeks, we start getting positive feedback from customers, and that's generally the ultimate result for everyone in the company. The leadership in the company also doesn't fail to recognize individuals who are putting in their best, and they get rewarded too. 4. The company's leadership being quite visible. This is a really important trait to have, as it helps individuals get a top-to-bottom view of how the company is operating, what the business plan is, what the overall engineering roadmap is, and other things. And this has been the case with Rippling from the start. It makes everyone be on the same page and then operate as required, which ultimately brings in more success and helps the company expand its business.Cons: 1. Working in Rippling sometimes gets hard. We can find ourselves in a situation where we need to ship a feature, but an unknown issue has come out. Now, we can't extend the deadline, so in those cases, we need to push a bit harder and get things done. Again, the impact of such features is quite big. The same can happen with an escalated customer for a support ticket, so it becomes important to resolve the issue for us to have the customer's trust in Rippling. 2. One other point which might bug sometime is the timezone difference. As a product team, some members can be in a different timezone. So, for folks in IST, some meetings can be a bit late in the evening. In our team, we have been trying to minimize it by trying to get most of the work done by async messaging.
- 4.0Great Pay, Good TechSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJuly 29, 2023Pros: Great pay, good tech team, good stocks.Cons: Nothing much to say, actually.
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