Ramp interview, decoded.

Ramp does not publish its interview process, so the stages below come from candidate reports between late 2024 and September 2026. Glassdoor puts the average at about 19 days. The format changed in the second half of 2025, when the AI coding round appeared, so ask the recruiter which rounds you will have.

Ramp publishes six values on its about page, and its job ads add a hiring line of their own: slope over intercept, meaning how fast you are growing counts more than where you start.

• Grow without fear
• We win when customers win
• Amp it up
• We're one team
• Ramp is built for everyone
• Take ownership

The coding problems recur across reports, so they have their own section below. The behavioural questions follow Ramp's values and the slope-over-intercept line in its ads.

These come from candidate reports on Reddit and Glassdoor between November 2024 and September 2026, and from InterviewDB's list of Ramp questions. The problems are practical and long, so the approach below is about structure and pace more than a clever algorithm. Write code that runs, and test it as you go.

• The bank problem (online assessment): A bank that grows level by level: accounts, deposits, transfers, then rules such as scheduled payments or cashback. Model accounts and transactions as classes from the first level, keep amounts in integer cents, and keep a history of transactions so later levels that ask for it do not force a rewrite. A September 2026 candidate's advice was to study payments and object-oriented design.
• File system methods (online assessment): Methods to add, read, delete and list files, with sizes, then queries on top. Pick one data structure for the tree at level one, usually a dictionary keyed by path, and write every later method against it.
• Pull data from an API, process it, reshape it: The shape of the backend live round. Fetch, handle paging and errors, parse the response into plain objects, then filter, group and aggregate. Say out loud what you would do with a malformed record before you hit one.
• Parse files in JSON, text and CSV: Reported for backend roles in November 2024. Know your language's standard parsers cold, handle a header row and a trailing newline, and keep parsing separate from the logic that uses the data.
• Code a simplified Wordle in React: Reported for a senior engineer in August 2026. State for the guesses and the current input, a pure function that scores a guess against the answer letter by letter, and a component that renders the grid from state. Handle repeated letters correctly; that is where most versions break.
• A calendar view in React: Reported on InterviewDB as recently as September 2026 and named by a candidate who was asked it. Lay out a month or week grid from dates, place events in their slots, and handle events that overlap or cross a day boundary.
• Build a feature with Claude Code or Cursor: The AI round. Read the whole problem first, give the tool a small, clear first task, and check every change it makes before you build on it. Interviewers watch how you steer and verify, so talk through each prompt and what you expect back.

InterviewDB also lists Subscription Tracking (21 reports, last in August 2026), Flights Tracking, Spreadsheet, CSV Queries, Currency CLI and Rock Paper Scissors. The problem statements are behind its paywall, so they are named here and not described. The pattern across all of them is the same: a small system with rules added in stages.

Levels.fyi figures for Ramp software engineers across the US, read on 25 September 2026: a median package of $385K from 125 submissions, with stock vesting 25 percent a year over four years. Ramp posts New York base ranges on its ads, for example $168K to $275K for core product, $189K to $330K for enterprise product and $275K to $400K for a travel tech lead. London roles post £106K to £150K, and interns are paid $12.5K a month. Calibrd benchmarks the pay on any posting you scan against its level and location.

1. Do one CodeSignal-style progressive problem end to end in 90 minutes: a bank or a file system, level by level, without rewriting at each level.
2. Practise the backend round's shape: call a public API, parse the JSON, then group and aggregate the result, all inside an hour.
3. Get fluent with Claude Code or Cursor before the onsite, and practise checking what the tool writes as fast as it writes it.
4. Handle money as integer cents and be ready to explain why.
5. Frontend roles: build a Wordle and a calendar grid in React once each, with the tricky cases (repeated letters, overlapping events) working.

This guide covers Ramp's software engineering loops, including internships. Sales, which is its largest hiring area, runs a different process. For management and leadership roles the loop is similar but the bar shifts to people, delivery and strategy, so pair it with the leadership interview prep hub. The bar for your exact role comes from the role-by-role guides, and the prep that actually transfers is spoken, so run a mock interview before the real one.

• 01InterviewDB, Ramp interview questions14 titled Ramp questions with their last report date and count: Subscription Tracking (21 reports, August 2026), Calendar View (14, September 2026), Flights Tracking, Spreadsheet, AI Live Coding (August 2026), a system design Tracker and more; problem statements are paywalled
• 02r/csMajors, Ramp internship processthe pipeline of OA, a Hireflix video step, one coding round, then two coding interviews and a leadership interview; August 2025
• 03r/csMajors, Ramp CodeSignal assessmentthe OA in parts that unlock one after another, 90 minutes, and methods that interact with a file system; November 2025
• 04r/csMajors, Ramp OAthe bank problem and destination packets, problems 'lengthy rather than complex'; August 2025
• 05r/csMajors, Ramp backend coding roundno LeetCode-style questions in the 60-minute coding round; March 2026
• 06r/csMajors, Ramp AI coding roundcredits for Claude Code or Cursor, with candidates expected to code with the AI; November 2025
• 07r/csMajors, Ramp backend final roundpulling data from an API, processing it and manipulating the data; February 2025
• 08Glassdoor, Ramp interview questions (archived August 2026)an average of 19 days, and a senior engineer asked to code a simplified Wordle in React (August 2026); the profile may mix in other companies named Ramp
• 09Ramp job board (Ashby)155 open roles on 25 September 2026, 37 in engineering, 119 in New York, with posted base ranges
• 10Ramp, about usthe six values and the New York headquarters
• 11Ramp Builders, forward deployed engineeringfundamentals checked without over-indexing on perfection: coding, debugging, data structures, system design; August 2025
• 12Levels.fyi, Ramp software engineerthe $385K US median from 125 submissions and the per-level figures, read 25 September 2026
• 13TechCrunch, Ramp raises $750M at a $44B valuationled by ICONIQ, GIC and Ontario Teachers', annualized revenue above $1B, 70,000 customers; 4 June 2026
• 14Wikipedia, Rampfounded in March 2019 by Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh and Gene Lee

Interview processes change. This reflects widely-reported and sourced conditions as of 2026 — confirm specifics with your recruiter, and treat it as a map rather than a guarantee.