I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Grab (Kuala Lumpur) in Feb 2019
Interview
The interview process is not at all streamlined. I had a Codility round, followed by 2 technical rounds with Android Engineer, followed by one final round with Engineering Manager and it took 2 months after me following up with the Grab team. Not that all, I dint hear from Grab for 2 more months and then got another mail that I have another final round of interview with Engineering Manager. After this round, I again had to follow up asking the result and got an email that they have decided not to proceed. After 5 months, me following up with the team multiple times and 2 final rounds which were preceded by multiple technical rounds, is total waste of energy and time. I do not understand why do they send an email of final round followed by another email of another final round. I felt second final round was conducted just to reject me.
During the entire process I had conversations with multiple HR's and each was not aware of the previous conversations.
I hope they streamline the process and inform the candidates in advance of number of rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q1. Dagger discussion
Q2. RX java discussion
Q3. Java thread discussion
Q4. Data binding
Q5. Yield vs join in JAVA
Q6.Observer vs observable in RX JAVA
Q7. https://medium.com/solvingalgo/solving-algorithmic-problems-possible-hotel-bookings-fa3a544c6683","Problem solving - We have arrival date of guests and departure date of guests. We have number of rooms in a hotel. Find if number of rooms are sufficient to satisfy the demand.
Q8. 2 live coding rounds using Android Studio and some problem statements
I have attended the online test via Codility. The level of interview was awesome. Totally three questions to be solved in 120 mins. One is Basic programming skill test. Next two questions are about the architecture & logical programming questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It's about software architecture & logical programming questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Grab (Bengaluru) in Aug 2017
Interview
Disappointed. Pathetic interview experience. Now before you assume my feelings are based on fact that i was rejected, i got offer from Microsoft, Amazon and Olx in same week. Selection and rejection are part of interview process but its the interaction that people remember. Had 3 rounds 1 Skype and 2 F-F. Basic android related and coding qs in skype round. 1st F-F two coding questions of medium difficulty. Solved but guy was unable to understand the solution despite me explaining solution with 4-5 examples. Finally he drew one example of BST and lol it was invalid BST. I pointed that out and guy started feeling embarrassed and this was the reason for rejection. Next round was just a formality with one of junior developer asking random android and java related questions. No introduction happened in any of the round. I thank them that they rejected me :)
