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Phone Screen and Onsite Reject, Struggling With the AI-Coding Rounds

RipplingSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Apr 2026

First round phone screen: I picked AI coding, and it was the logger question that's been posted on the forum. Roughly: the first question was to implement the following functionality, where each feature could be triggered and then print out the logger: Removes all occurrences of a configured string before printing. Truncates the message to a max number of characters before printing. Capitalizes t…

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