$520K Offer from Rippling— Even After Failing a Coding Question?

I interviewed with Rippling in 2022 and received an offer of $520K (~$270K in base salary and ~$1M / 4 years in equity). I was surprised to get an offer (as I will explain below), but I found some valuable takeaways from the interview process.

What’s Rippling?

Rippling is a suite of HR, IT, and Finance products that makes employee management easier. It starts with the fundamental building block of employee data, and then automates payroll, manages software, and handles administrative work when an employee changes teams, gets promoted, or leaves the company.

A concrete example of this is their Unity product, which enables custom, automated workflows across business systems within a company. For example, you could automatically receive a Slack alert if there’s a high-priority JIRA ticket assigned to an employee who’s out-of-office. Note that three different business services need to be integrated here, and Rippling makes that easy.

Rippling’s latest launch, Global Payroll, expands their fully automated payroll product beyond the U.S. This is a major development, as outlined in their blog post.

In May, Rippling raised $250M in its Series D, propelling its value to $11.25 billion. Top-tier investors, including Sequoia, Y…