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← Grafana Labs

Staff+ Backend at Grafana Labs

BackendStaff+Offer◆ Commonly asked· 2023

5-round staff backend process. Coding-heavy early, design and behavioral later.

The loop · 5 rounds

01

Round 01 · 3 questions

DSA / Coding

Data structures & algorithms on a whiteboard or shared editor.

  • Word search II.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #trie#backtracking
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Search in a rotated sorted array.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #binary-search
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Number of islands in a 2D grid.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #bfs#dfs#grid
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
02

Round 02 · 1 question

Low-Level Design

Object-oriented / low-level design of a focused module.

  • Design an in-memory file system.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #oop#trees
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
03

Round 03 · 2 questions

System Design

High-level architecture of a large-scale system.

  • Design a real-time fraud-detection pipeline.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #streaming#ml
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
  • Design a distributed task queue like Celery.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #queues#workers
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
04

Round 04 · 1 question

Hiring Manager

Scope, ownership, and role-fit discussion with the manager.

  • How do you keep a team unblocked and shipping?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #leadership
05

Round 05 · 2 questions

Behavioral / HR

Values, collaboration, and past-experience (STAR) questions.

  • How do you get up to speed on an unfamiliar codebase?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #learning
  • When did you take ownership of something outside your scope?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #ownership#star

◆ This experience is composed from commonly reported questions for this role and level. Real, individually-shared interviews will be layered in over time.