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What they do

Grab is a superapp in Southeast Asia. People use it to order meals, get rides, send parcels, and manage money. The founders started it in 2012 as a taxi app in Malaysia. Grab says that it has 32 million users in 8 countries. Its services include GrabFood, GrabMart, GrabExpress, GrabPay, and GrabAds. Grab calls itself an AI-first company.

What they value

• Heart: put the user first, and do what is right for the user.
• Hunger: move fast, test ideas early, and learn new tools and technology.
• Honour: debate directly, commit fully, and own the result.
• Humility: own mistakes, learn from them, and get 1% better each day.
• An inclusive workplace that considers all candidates fairly and equally.
• Flexible work, which Postings call FlexWork, such as differentiated hours.

Where they hire

Of 451 Postings, Petaling Jaya holds 129, Singapore 110, Jakarta 70, Ho Chi Minh City 59, Bangkok 23, and Pasig City 20. Bengaluru holds 11 and China holds 15. More than half of the Postings say that the role is onsite. A few say hybrid. No Posting mentions visa sponsorship or the right to work.

Teams and roles

The board has 451 Postings. Of these, 428 are full-time and 19 are internships.

• Tech: 187 Postings, the largest division. Software engineering holds 107 Postings, for backend, Android, iOS, and full-stack engineers. Some are for robotics, such as perception and planning.
• Data: data scientists for models and for analytics, machine learning engineers, and data engineers.
• Product and design: 23 product management Postings, and product designers for search, deliveries, and business platforms.
• Security: 14 information security Postings, with a red team (a team that attacks the company's own systems to find weak points).
• Corporate: 133 Postings in finance, strategy, people operations, and finance systems that run on Oracle.
• Country operations: 116 Postings in the operations teams of Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Cambodia. These cover sales, merchant and key account management, marketing, GrabAds, and support.

What they look for

Most Postings name a number of years of experience, and many ask for a bachelor's degree in a related field. Backend roles ask for a language such as Go, C++, or Python, and for experience with large distributed systems. They also ask for relational and NoSQL databases, AWS, and on-call duty. A data science role asks for optimisation models, data pipelines, and code that is readable and testable.

Postings in many teams ask for skill with AI tools. A product manager role asks for AI fluency and A/B tests. A product designer role asks for a portfolio of shipped work and Figma. An internship asks for AI tools in data analysis and reports. A security role asks for experience in tests of AI systems as an attacker.

Roles tied to one market ask for its language and English. Postings name Thai, Vietnamese, Bahasa Malaysia, and Mandarin. Many roles ask you to work with stakeholders in more than one country.

The careers site describes the interviews. Engineering interviews have live coding, system design, and a culture fit talk about the four values. Other roles get functional interviews and a practical task, such as a case study or a portfolio review.