The hiring process at Ramp takes an average of 7 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Ingeniero De Software had the quickest hiring process (on average 7 days), whereas Ingeniero De Software roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 7 days).
Online assessment (quick React challenge), followed by a phone conversation. Didn't get past that point in the process, but I felt like it was a fairly good time. Recruiter seemed competent.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you had to make a technical decision.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Ramp
Interview
4 step process, first an initial screening interview, a zoom with an SDR manager, a role play interview, and a final interview. Efficient and easy process that is quick with responses and diligent in communication.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Ramp in Mar 2023
Interview
All in all I was a bit disappointed to not get the offer, but it may have been for the best. I would be worried that the immense VC funding may be incentivizing unsustainable company and revenue growth. ***Interview Process***
- 1 hour coderpad interview.
- 1 hour coderpad interview.
- Final round, consisting of (a) 1 hour coderpad interview (b) Behavioral interview (c) Case study interview.
***Pros***
- Provided feedback about interviews.
- Interviewing engineers seem to have strong technical qualifications.
***Pain points***
- 3 practically identical coderpad interviews.
- Through the process I was told placement would come later, but then I don't feel like I was interviewed by team members where placement would have actually been more aligned. Absolutely nothing against the members that interviewed me and I probably would have worked well on separate teams. I just think that I didn't speak with anyone on a team where that team's business objective matched well with my interests.
***Red flags***
- No processes to ensure diversity and inclusion, besides "focusing on the recruiting pipeline". This isn't really acceptable for a >=500 person company.
- Too many unorganized product teams. I got the sense that Ramp may be growing too fast, and isn't sure how to organize its teams to work together.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coderpads consisted of standard questions, reasonably solvable within the hour. You are not locked away from the internet which was really helpful to look up standard library components, so in that way it's more realistic to the day-to-day grind. I won't list the problem word-for-word but to get an idea of what kind of problems there are:
1. String/character counting and printing formatted output
2. Reading data and computing [average / sum / mean]
3. Making network requests and taking conditional actions from response data.