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Logistics & mobilityProduct company

Grab

Technology company running ride hailing, food and grocery delivery and digital financial services across Southeast Asia.

Not known4 stage process documentedFounded 2012
Headquarters

Singapore, Singapore

Headcount

5,000 and up

5,000 or more people
Work model

Not known

Hiring

Not known

Not enough signal to say. Check the careers page directly.
Where to apply
Careers pageWebsite

Ask for a referral to Grab

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  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
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Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Open internships

How they hire

Grab’s careers site lists the parts of its engineering interview rather than a fixed sequence, and the leadership round applies only to lead and manager roles. Non-engineering roles follow a separate process with case studies, portfolio reviews or take-home exercises.

  1. 1

    Live coding

    Official
    Live coding

    One or two coding questions solved in real time on an online coding platform, focused on data structures and algorithms.

    Data structuresAlgorithms
  2. 2

    System design

    Official
    System design

    A discussion about designing scalable systems, covering architecture, security and monitoring. It is often run as a brainstorming or whiteboard session where you have to justify your design decisions.

    ArchitectureSecurityMonitoring
  3. 3

    Culture fit

    Official
    Culture fit

    A conversation about how you collaborate and how your values match Grab’s 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility.

  4. 4

    Engineering leadership, for lead and manager roles

    Official
    Senior leadership

    An extra round for managerial and lead roles on how you lead, inspire and get results through others.

What comes up

Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.

  • Explaining your thinking while you code

    Official

    Grab says it cares as much about how you solve a problem as about the answer, so it wants to hear your reasoning as you work.

  • Scalability, reliability and maintainability

    Official

    The design round tests system design basics, and Grab tells candidates to revise these principles before the interview.

  • AI and its ethics

    Official

    Grab calls itself an AI-first company and asks candidates to follow new AI trends and be ready to talk about ethical questions in technology.

  • Collaboration and stakeholder management

    Official

    Candidates should be ready with examples from past projects where they worked with others and managed stakeholders.

Worth reading before you apply

From the Sefism resource library, matched to the rounds above.

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System Design Interview Playbook

A learning path that bundles five courses into one sequence for system design preparation: System Design Fundamentals, Grokking the System Design Interview, Advanced System Design Interview Volume II, Grokking Microservices Design Patterns and Grokking Design Patterns for Engineers and Managers. Together they add up to 76 chapters and 666 lessons. It suits engineers who want a complete, ordered curriculum instead of assembling one from scattered posts.

  • System design
  • Job search
  • Career
Design Gurus · System Design · 2 to 4 months
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Coding Interview Playbook

A structured learning path through coding interview preparation that brings together data structures and algorithms fundamentals, recursion and the pattern-based approach to coding questions in one order. It totals 77 chapters and 1,054 lessons, with quizzes, flashcards and a certificate. Use it when you have plenty of material but no clear plan for what to study first.

  • Job search
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  • Career
Design Gurus · Interview Prep · 3 to 6 months
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FAANG Coding Interview Roadmap

A bundle of five company-specific question courses covering the problems most often reported from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Oracle coding rounds, each split into easy, medium and hard sets with worked solutions. It suits candidates who already know the core patterns and have a loop booked at one of these companies, and want to rehearse on the questions those interviewers are known to ask.

  • Job search
  • DSA
  • Career
Design Gurus · Interview Prep · 3 to 4 months · Advanced
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Platform
Arslan Ahmad: Interview Coaching

One-to-one coaching with the author of the best-selling Grokking courses, a tech lead whose background spans Meta, Microsoft and Hulu, where he built and scaled distributed systems and data storage infrastructure. Sessions cover system design, data structures and algorithms, interview strategy and career direction. It suits engineers who have prepared seriously and want an expert read on what is still holding them back.

  • Career
  • Job search
  • System design
Design Gurus · Mentorship · 60 minutes per session
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Book
Fundamentals of Data Engineering

The best single book for understanding what data engineering is and how the pieces fit, organised around the data engineering lifecycle rather than any one tool. Read it alongside a hands-on course: it explains why things are built the way they are, the course teaches you to build them.

  • System design
  • Databases
  • Cloud
  • Career
O'Reilly Media (Joe Reis and Matt Housley) · System Design · About 450 pages · Beginner
PaidDetails
Course
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)

The AWS certification most junior cloud roles ask for: designing secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimised architectures on AWS. Take it after building real things with IAM, VPC, EC2, S3 and RDS, and pair it with a project you can explain.

  • Career
  • Cloud
  • System design
Amazon Web Services · Career Growth · 130-minute exam · Intermediate
150 USD examDetails
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What it pays

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Add to the Grab page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

Universities they recruit from

No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.

Add to the Grab page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

How to actually get seen

Practise timed data structures and algorithms questions on a common coding platform and get used to talking through your approach as you go. Learn the 4H values and have real examples ready for each.

Sources

Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.

Interviewed at Grab? Fill in what changed.

Processes change, rounds get added, tests get replaced. If what you went through was different from what is on this page, tell me and I will update it.

Want me to refer you here?

Send me the role, your CV and a few honest paragraphs on why you fit it. Where I know someone inside and your profile matches, I will make the introduction. Where I cannot, I will tell you why and point you at the route that does work. You get an answer either way.

Ask for a referral to Grab

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
  • Nothing you send here is shared with anyone without you agreeing to it first.

If you found the opening, paste it. It tells me which team you mean.

A Drive, Dropbox or personal-site link is fine. Make sure it opens without a request for access, or I cannot read it.

At least a short paragraph. This is what I would be putting my name behind, so specifics beat adjectives.

Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Add to the Grab page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

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