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Grindr Software Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Grindr Software Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated weekly.

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CodingStart here. 18 questions · ~168 min
Longest Unique Substring in EnoMedium
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Use a sliding window and hash map to find the longest substring without repeated characters in a string.

Hash TablesStringsTwo PointersGrindr
Merge Overlapping IntervalsEasy
Practice

Merge overlapping intervals in a list of intervals.

ArraysSearchingSortingGrindr
How Java Garbage Collection WorksMedium

Explain Java GC roots, reachability, generations, and how collection reclaims unused heap memory.

ArraysStringsGrindr
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System Design3 questions · ~28 min
Design Facebook Feed RecommenderHard

Design the end-to-end ML system for Facebook Feed recommendation, from retrieval and ranking to serving, evaluation, monitoring, and failure handling.

ML RankingRetrievalRecommendation SystemsGrindr
Threading Model on iOSMedium

Tests your understanding of concurrency concepts and how they map to iOS execution.

threadingGrindr
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Execution4 questions · ~37 min
Debugging Production IncidentsHard

Tests your incident response process, observability use, and safe remediation.

Rollback PlanOwnershipRisk AssessmentGrindr
Real-Time Messaging System DesignMedium

Tests your ability to design low-latency messaging with scalability, reliability, and data consistency.

Trade-offsRisk AssessmentScope ManagementGrindr
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Behavioral & Leadership9 questions · ~84 min
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More topics1 question · ~9 min
Data Integrity in Distributed SystemsHard

Tests understanding of consistency, transactions, failure modes, and integrity guarantees.

IdempotencyDependenciesQualityGrindr
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