Design a URL Shortening Service
Design a deliberately small URL-shortening core, then evolve it into a highly available service whose fixed logical shards can move safely as physical storage capacity grows.
Open practiceGrab interview practice
Practice from 2 Grab-tagged public coding problems, organized only by the stage, topic, difficulty, and recency metadata FastPrep can verify. The broader public catalog also includes 1 system-design exercise.
Phone practice path
Practice solving while explaining assumptions, tradeoffs, and complexity. Problems are ranked by repeated public catalog sightings.
2 Grab-tagged Phone Screen problems available.
| Company | Problem | Difficulty | Public evidence | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
GRGrab | Minimum Operations to Halve an Array SumArrayHeap | Medium | 1 public reportLast reported Nov 2021 | Practice |
GRGrab | Smallest Point with Maximum Inclusive Interval OverlapArraySorting | Medium | 1 public reportLast reported Nov 2021 | Practice |
01 · Preparation plan
Grab's compact set is useful for practicing deterministic tie and boundary behavior across a heap, an inclusive interval sweep, and a distributed identifier service. Catalog labels guide practice but do not promise a current or universal hiring loop. This is a suggested practice sequence, not the employer's interview process. Your invitation and recruiter guidance remain the source of truth.
Use Minimum Operations to Halve an Array Sum to rehearse greedy maximum reduction with a heap. Keep the exercise's published contract separate from assumptions about Grab's current interview process.
Use Smallest Point with Maximum Inclusive Interval Overlap to rehearse sweep ordering with inclusive endpoints. Keep the exercise's published contract separate from assumptions about Grab's current interview process.
Use Design a URL Shortening Service to rehearse identifier allocation and shard movement. Keep the exercise's published contract separate from assumptions about Grab's current interview process.
02 · Broader technical practice
These public Grab-tagged exercises cover additional technical formats. They are included only when a verified catalog record and a crawlable practice page both exist.
Design a deliberately small URL-shortening core, then evolve it into a highly available service whose fixed logical shards can move safely as physical storage capacity grows.
Open practice03 · Evidence boundary
It means practicing transferable implementation, testing, and technical reasoning with public catalog assets FastPrep tags to Grab. It does not mean FastPrep has access to the company's assessments or any private interview bank.
Repeated public sightings and last-reported dates can help you prioritize practice, but they cannot predict the questions, format, or platform in a specific interview.
04 · Plain answers
This page owns technical-practice intent for Grab. Hiring activity, timelines, and market signals remain on the separate hiring-insights page.
The launch review verified 2 coding exercises, 1 system-design exercise (3 total public practice items). The strongest reviewed themes are greedy maximum reduction with a heap, sweep ordering with inclusive endpoints, identifier allocation and shard movement. Counts and report labels can change, so use this as a focused practice library and follow your own invitation for the current format, timing, and permitted tools.
No. FastPrep is an independent interview-preparation product and is not affiliated with Grab. The page uses FastPrep's public practice catalog and does not claim official, private, leaked, or proprietary employer questions.
Stage labels come from FastPrep's public problem metadata. A problem can carry more than one reported stage, and hiring processes can change by role, level, location, and date. Treat the labels as preparation context, not a guarantee.
Start with the stage named in your invitation or recruiter message. If no stage is known, use the largest available set to build general problem-solving fluency, then rehearse explanation and testing separately.
No. Public catalog counts, stage tags, and last-reported dates can help prioritize practice, but they cannot predict a specific interview's questions, sequence, timing, or platform.
Your next stage, made concrete
Start with the stage named in your invitation, then use public evidence as context—not as a promise of what you will be asked.
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