Article Voting: Last Three Flips and Top K

CodingRipplingLast reported July 2026Medium Frequency
Reported
5× across candidate reports
First seen
December 2025
Last reported
July 2026
Reported outcome
mixed

Problem Overview

The round: Rippling's article-voting question, in five reports from December 2025 to July 2026: two phone screens, two onsite coding rounds and one report that does not name the round. One candidate posted the prompt in English, quoted below. Part 2 is get_top_k. One onsite candidate reports a third version…

  • 3 candidate-reported follow-ups — the exact probes interviewers asked, with the trigger for each
  • The rest of the problem statement — full requirements, constraints, and edge cases
  • Approach and trade-offs — what passing candidates did, and the mistakes that sink people
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