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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Singapore

August 15, 2025

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interviewer treated the interview as an ego exercise, where they seemed to need the candidate to be deficient so they could feel strong.

I solved the DSA problem in one go but wasn't allowed to run it to debug and validate test cases until I ran through each loop with each input.

The interviewer definitely had a solution by-hearted and got confused when a more optimized solution was used – absolutely comedy gold.

Grab must definitely retrain these clowns.

Questions

Given an integer array nums, find the subarray with the largest sum, and return its sum.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 15 interview experiences for the Grab Senior Software Engineer role in Singapore.

Success Rate

33%

Pass Rate

Grab's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Singapore is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive53%

Neutral13%

Negative33%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Grab's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Singapore.

Grab Work Experiences

Expectation is getting higher

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

November 27, 2025

Pros: Upper management provides various support for employees growth, e.g. making the adoption of AI tools mandatory for employees, which not only benefits the company's productivity but also employees' growth.

Cons: Recently there's a new policy introduced for SE roles, i.e. G3 has 4 years to be promoted to G4 (senior), and G4 has 5 years to be G5 (lead). Crossing that will mean getting PIP and retrenched.

Expectation is getting higher

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

November 27, 2025

Pros: Upper management provides various support for employees growth, e.g. making the adoption of AI tools mandatory for employees, which not only benefits the company's productivity but also employees' growth.

Cons: Recently there's a new policy introduced for SE roles, i.e. G3 has 4 years to be promoted to G4 (senior), and G4 has 5 years to be G5 (lead). Crossing that will mean getting PIP and retrenched.

Good Company with Good Benefit

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

November 23, 2025

Pros: - Compensation OK - Flexible working time - Can request for temporary remote work - Good teammate

Cons: - Keep on having a re-org

Good Company with Good Benefit

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

November 23, 2025

Pros: - Compensation OK - Flexible working time - Can request for temporary remote work - Good teammate

Cons: - Keep on having a re-org

Great workplace

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

November 20, 2025

Pros: Competitive professional and awesome tech stack to work with.

Cons: Huge organization and low visibility.

Great workplace

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

November 20, 2025

Pros: Competitive professional and awesome tech stack to work with.

Cons: Huge organization and low visibility.

Expectation is getting higher

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

November 27, 2025

Pros: Upper management provides various support for employees growth, e.g. making the adoption of AI tools mandatory for employees, which not only benefits the company's productivity but also employees' growth.

Cons: Recently there's a new policy introduced for SE roles, i.e. G3 has 4 years to be promoted to G4 (senior), and G4 has 5 years to be G5 (lead). Crossing that will mean getting PIP and retrenched.

3.0
Expectation is getting higher
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Singapore
November 27, 2025
Pros: Upper management provides various support for employees growth, e.g. making the adoption of AI tools mandatory for employees, which not only benefits the company's productivity but also employees' growth.
Cons: Recently there's a new policy introduced for SE roles, i.e. G3 has 4 years to be promoted to G4 (senior), and G4 has 5 years to be G5 (lead). Crossing that will mean getting PIP and retrenched.

Good Company with Good Benefit

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

November 23, 2025

Pros: - Compensation OK - Flexible working time - Can request for temporary remote work - Good teammate

Cons: - Keep on having a re-org

4.0
Good Company with Good Benefit
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Jakarta
November 23, 2025
Pros: - Compensation OK - Flexible working time - Can request for temporary remote work - Good teammate
Cons: - Keep on having a re-org

Great workplace

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

November 20, 2025

Pros: Competitive professional and awesome tech stack to work with.

Cons: Huge organization and low visibility.

5.0
Great workplace
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
Kuala Lumpur
November 20, 2025
Pros: Competitive professional and awesome tech stack to work with.
Cons: Huge organization and low visibility.

Grab Interview Questions

Minimum Number of Food Buckets to Feed the Hamsters

Imagine hamsters lined up in a row! You need to place food buckets so every hamster gets fed, but buckets can't be next to each other or next to houses. Find the fewest buckets you need.

ArraysGreedy Algorithms

Minimum Cost For Tickets

You're planning a trip and need to buy tickets for specific travel days. Given the costs for 1-day, 7-day, and 30-day passes, determine the minimum total cost to cover all your travel days.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Adding Two Negabinary Numbers

Simulate addition with base -2 using the given arrays representing two negabinary numbers. Return the result as a negabinary array, ensuring no leading zeros.

ArraysTwo Pointers

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