RejectedTechnical Screen

An AI Coding Edge Case with Filtered Parent Tasks

RipplingSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

This AI coding phone screen ended in rejection. Sending the problem directly to an AI could miss an important edge case: if a parent is filtered out, its child task should be filtered out as well. One test case for that behavior was: The fourth task was unrelated and should remain in the result, while the parent and grandchild should not appear because the grandparent was filtered.

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.