Senior SDE at Rippling

I recently interviewed for a Senior SDE position at Rippling. The interview process was structured into several rounds:

System Design

I was asked to design a hotel reservation system similar to Expedia. The key areas of focus were:

• Searching for rooms by date and location.
• Reserving rooms.
• Ingesting room availability from third-party hotels.

Web Question

This round involved designing models and APIs for a questions and answers platform like Stack Overflow. I found this round a bit challenging as we already had some boilerplate locally, which made it difficult to assess how I performed. There were also some follow-up questions related to scaling and sharding.

Coding

The coding round presented a problem where I needed to implement functions for a music player. Specifically, I had to:

• Add a song.
• Play a song by a user.
• Print analytics based on the number of times a song was played, ordered by the descending number of unique users.
• Retrieve the 3 most recent unique songs played by a user.

The result of my interview is still TBD.