Rippling's Nine Leadership Principles -- Your Behavioral Interview Cheat Sheet

In this episode

This episode connects Rippling’s nine published leadership principles to behavioral preparation. It uses firsthand observation, responsibility, direct feedback, and reconsidering a decision to help you choose real examples. Practice questions are illustrative; the public principles do not establish a guaranteed question bank or scoring rubric.

Notes updated November 1, 2026

What to take away

• Official context: Rippling describes observing work directly and acting on problems, including work outside your usual responsibilities.
• Our advice: describe what you saw for yourself, what assumption it changed, and the action you took. A small example with clear evidence is more useful than a broad claim of ownership.
• Our advice: prepare a disagreement where you considered new evidence. Explain whether you changed your decision and how you communicated it.

Sources

• Rippling: Life at Rippling and leadership principles