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Practice 9403 coding, system design and machine learning questions from 546 companies, sorted by role, topic and interview round. Every question has step-by-step hints, a code runner that supports 8 languages and an AI mentor; members also get the full solution walkthrough.
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- RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerDesign personalized news aggregation service
This question tests the ability to design a scalable news aggregation system that balances real-time content ingestion with personalized ranking for a large user base.
System DesignTechnical ScreenScalabilityDistributed SystemsRanking - RipplingHardSoftware EngineerDesign poker-like hand comparison with custom ranking
This question evaluates object-oriented design, rule-based comparison logic, and algorithmic reasoning for ranking and tie-breaking of card hands, including skills in extensibility and comparison-key representation.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - RipplingHardSoftware EngineerEvaluate Configurable Rideshare Payout Audit Rules as Data
Implement a generic rule-evaluation engine for a rideshare payout audit tool, where per-fare and per-driver-total rules, each with its own AND-combined conditions, are supplied entirely as data rather than hard-coded branches, using exact integer-cent arithmetic.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screenrule-enginedesigndata-modeling - RipplingHardSoftware EngineerEvaluate Expense and Trip-Level Rules as Data
Evaluate configurable expense and trip-sum rules using exact cents, reusable typed predicates, strict thresholds, multiple flags, and deterministic result ordering.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerEvent-Kitchen Prep Scheduler: Dependencies, Priority, Filters
Build a scheduler for a catering kitchen's prep tasks: a task can't start before its dependencies finish, higher-priority ready tasks jump the queue, and a dietary filter can remove tasks whose downstream dependents must then re-route around them. Tests topological ordering, deterministic tie-breaking, cycle handling, and precisely specifying filter-removal semantics.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screentopological-sortgraphsheap - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerExplain JS event loop and related concepts
This question tests your knowledge of the JavaScript runtime architecture, specifically the distinction between macrotasks and microtasks, and your ability to predict execution order in asynchronous programming.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical ScreenJavaScriptEvent LoopAsynchronous - RipplingHardSoftware EngineerExtend an Expense Rules Engine with Nested Boolean Conditions
Extend an expense rules engine with validated AND/OR/NOT expression trees, typed leaf operators, explicit missing-field semantics, and explainable evaluation.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerExtend rules for trip-level aggregates and outputs
This interview question evaluates requirements, scale assumptions, API/data design, architecture, trade-offs, failure modes, and rollout in a realistic interview setting. A strong answer for Extend rules for trip-level aggregates and outputs states assumptions, handles edge cases, explains trade-offs, and shows how to validate the result clearly.
System DesignTechnical Screen - RipplingEasySoftware EngineerExtensible Logger With Independent Handlers and Any-Keyword Search Over Stored Logs
An object-oriented design and coding question about a logger with independent handlers that strip a configured string, truncate, uppercase or store messages, followed by a case-sensitive any-keyword search over stored logs. It tests extensible design patterns, indexing for fast search, and scaling a logger to production volume.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - RipplingMediumData AnalystFind Payroll Bookings in the Latest Active Month by Country
Tests PostgreSQL date manipulation, filtering, and aggregation by determining the most recent month with active payroll bookings and summarizing totals by country.
Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)Technical Screensqlpostgresqldate-manipulation - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerFind median of two sorted arrays
This question evaluates algorithmic problem-solving skills related to sorted arrays and median computation, testing competency in handling numeric order properties and complexity analysis within the Coding & Algorithms domain.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerFind minimum of unknown convex function
This question evaluates a candidate's understanding of convex optimization and zeroth-order (query-based) algorithm design, including reasoning about sample complexity, interval-reduction strategies, and robustness to noisy function evaluations.
Machine LearningTechnical Screen - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerFind the Best and Worst Completion of a Partial Numeric Hand
Find the strongest and weakest five-card completions of a partial numeric hand under custom category and right-to-left tie-break rules while sharing one extensible comparison engine.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - RipplingEasySoftware EngineerHow would you scale rule evaluation?
This question tests your ability to design a high-throughput, rule-based processing engine that balances performance, scalability, and maintainability under high load.
System DesignTechnical ScreenRule EngineScalabilityCaching - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerImplement A Prioritized Task Scheduler With Parent Dependencies
Implement a task scheduler that manages parent-child task dependencies, applies custom multi-field tie-breaking priority rules, supports filtering, and handles dependency cycles.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical ScreenHeap / Priority QueueGraph / DAGTopological Sort - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerImplement Article Vote Tracking
Design an in-memory article vote tracking system that manages user upvotes/downvotes, detects vote flips to maintain an LRU-style flip history per user, and provides top-k article rankings by net score.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screenhash-tableheapordered-map - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerImplement Courier Delivery Cost Tracking
Design an in-memory billing system that tracks courier pay rates over time and calculates prorated delivery costs across half-open time intervals.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenDesignBinary SearchIntervals - RipplingEasySoftware EngineerImplement an article voting tracker
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design efficient stateful data structures and algorithms for tracking user votes, including correct handling of idempotent repeated votes, vote changes, deduplication, and retrieval of the most recent events.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerPlan CI Build Job Order with Prerequisites, Urgency and Filters
Order CI build jobs so that prerequisites come first, more urgent jobs go earlier, filtered-out jobs are skipped without breaking ordering through them, and jobs can be grouped into parallel waves. Tests Kahn's algorithm, deterministic tie-breaking, cycle reporting, and turning a detailed spec into code.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screentopological-sortheapgraphs - RipplingHardSoftware EngineerPropagate Task Filtering Through Ancestors
Design an algorithm to filter a hierarchy of tasks where any task failing a predicate—or having any ancestor that fails or is missing—is excluded along with all its descendants, running in linear time and preserving original order.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screenrecursiongraphmemoization - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerRank five-card hands by type, then find best and worst completions of unknown cards
A two-part coding question on a poker-like card game: compare two five-card hands by a fixed type priority with ties broken card by card, then find the best and worst complete hands when the last cards are unknown. Tests hand classification, ordering keys, testing discipline and search over completions.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerStagehand Wage Ledger With Accrued and Settled Pay
Design an in-memory class that tracks hourly pay for theater stagehands across logged call times, keeps running cost totals, and settles wages up to a cutoff without ever paying the same minute twice.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screenoop-designpayrollidempotency - RipplingHardSoftware EngineerStudio Session Billing with Rate Schedules and Exact Rounding
Build a command-driven billing ledger where technicians' hourly rates change over time, bookings are deduplicated, and fractional cents are kept exactly until an invoice is printed with a configurable rounding mode. Tests rate lookup by time, idempotency rules, and integer-exact money handling.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screenhash-mapbinary-searchmoney-arithmetic - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerTask Scheduler with Dependencies, Priorities and Filters
Coding question that asks for a task scheduler built from a detailed specification: tasks must come after their dependencies, follow priority or importance rules, and pass configurable filters. It tests topological ordering, deterministic tie-breaking, cycle handling and turning many interacting requirements into correct, tested code.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerTutor Billing Ledger With Idempotent Invoice Cutoffs
Implement an in-memory ledger for hourly tutors that logs sessions, reports total and outstanding amounts in O(1), and invoices work up to a cutoff without ever billing the same minute twice. Tests stateful design, exact arithmetic, and handling of partial and late-logged work.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screenobject-oriented-designidempotencymoney - RipplingMediumSoftware EngineerWalk through a project deep dive
This question evaluates a software engineer's technical leadership, system design reasoning, decision-making under constraints, measurable impact analysis, and mentorship competencies within the Behavioral & Leadership domain of software engineering.
Behavioral & LeadershipTechnical Screen - RivianMediumSoftware EngineerDesign and Debug an Automotive Sensor and Camera-Blockage System
Tests your ability to design an automotive perception sensor layout and lens-blockage detection system, define safe vehicle degradation strategies, and systematically troubleshoot intermittent false-positive diagnostic alerts in the field.
System DesignTechnical ScreenAutonomous VehiclesComputer VisionEmbedded Systems - RobinhoodHardData EngineerAggregate user logs into 30-minute sessions
This question evaluates data engineering competencies in time-series sessionization, datetime parsing and arithmetic, grouping and aggregation, distinct-count computation, and CSV log processing.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - RobinhoodMediumFrontend EngineerBuild a Chainable Rectangle Manipulation API
This problem tests your ability to design a fluent interface (method chaining) that manages an internal queue of asynchronous operations to ensure tasks execute sequentially.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical ScreenJavaScriptFluent-APIAsync - RobinhoodMediumSoftware EngineerCompute Load Factors in a Service Dependency DAG
Calculate downstream request multipliers for services in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) starting from an entrypoint service, accounting for converging dependency paths and unreachable nodes.
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