I applied online.

Applied online and was reached out by recruiter. First round was recruiter call. Asked about my background, describe any project I worked on, AI experience, etc. It seemed more mechanical than conversational like the recruiter was reading out from a list of questions, not even acknowledging my answers and moving on to next question. 2 days later I got an email to schedule Tech screen.

Tech screen was a 60 min round in coderpad. This interview was bad. For everything that I was saying, the interviewer was making faces and very unhelpful. For example, he asked me how do you store timestamp in general, I said Instant as one of the options and he acted like it was the first time he was hearing that word. He was constantly cross-questioning and interrupting me and I wasn’t able to run or test my code. When I checked his LinkedIn, it seemed like he had joined the company only a few months back and overall did not have much experience in tech. I’d expect rippling to have better interviewers.