Ramp onsite, the "project deep dive" turned into system design
Ramp onsite, the "project deep dive" turned into system design
Finished my Ramp virtual onsite Tuesday, 4 rounds after the phone screen, still waiting to hear back.
Phone screen was the URL traversal one. You hit a seed URL and keep following whatever comes back until it tells you you're done. I wasted like 8 min assuming the response was JSON before I actually printed it lol. Got the 503 retry follow-up working with a few minutes left and somehow moved forward.
Onsite coding was flight records, find the user with the most flights and then where a given user was at some point in time. Binary search for the second part, but I fumbled the pytest setup at the start and that ate time I didn't have.
For the AI coding round I had to reconcile transactions from a couple of sources. Honestly no clue what they were grading, I spent most of it agreeing with the interviewer on what even counts as a match.
Recruiter told me the architecture round would be a project deep dive, not system design. It was a deep dive for 35 min, then he goes "ok let's design something" and asks me to count site visits over the last minute. Wasn't ready for that at all.
BQ was fine, the "what are you most proud of" one.
Anyone know how long Ramp usually takes after onsite? Been 3 days and nothing.
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I heard back about a week after mine, so 3 days is nothing yet. good luck
did you end up doing a sliding window or buckets per second for the visits thing?
buckets per second, then summed the last 60. he pushed a bit on what happens across multiple servers and I kinda hand waved it
same thing with not printing the response first lol, interviewer let me struggle for a while before saying anything
the surprise SD at the end happened to me too. recruiter swore it was just the project walkthrough
yep, mine flipped to SD with like 20 min left. asked my recruiter after and got a pretty generic answer
Thanks for sharing your experience! Quick question - did you get the interview through a referral or by applying directly on Ramp's careers portal? I've been looking at a few roles there and would appreciate any insights!