Grab Software Engineer interview experience

After the HR screen, I went into an algorithms and data structures interview that ran about an hour, and it was very much about reasoning through problems in a structured way.

Next was system design for about an hour, where we went beyond just naming components and talked through concrete tradeoffs like API design, database schema choices, concurrency, and how caching and sharding strategies affect performance. The last step was a culture fit call with the hiring manager, also on a 60-minute schedule. Overall it felt like a pretty standard structure—technical depth first, then alignment at