Rapido — Lead Professional I | Interview Experience
Company: Rapido
Role: Lead Professional I
Experience: 8+ Year
Location: Bangalore
Interview Type: All Virtual rounde one CTO(HM) round onsite
Overall Process: Very Aligned (approx 1 month)
Round 1 — [HR Screening]
Duration: [10 mins]
Questions asked:
- Past experience discsusion
- Situational question discussion
Result: [Shortlisted for Further Round]
Round 2 — [Techinal Round with DOE (Director of Engineering)]
Duration: [1 hour]
Question:
[Reverse System Design]
Discussion:
- Discussion on past projects
- Architectural discussion on those, why you choose this.
- How you would protect service from infair usage, multitenancy asked
- Asked to tell how you will implement token bucket algorithm in prod
- Kafka indepth discussion
- Trade-offs
Interviewer focus:
Past project and if you choosen some tech need justification for that and what can be done better and implementation detail on whiteboard
Result: [Shortlisted for Next Round]
Round 3 — [System Design]
Duration: [60 mins]
Design a Personalized Search Recommendation System for Rapido
Design a system that recommends the top 3 destinations when a user starts searching for a ride. The recommendations should be personalized based on the user’s historical behavior, including day of week, time of day, frequency, recency, and favorite destinations. Favorite destinations should receive a higher priority while still considering contextual relevance. For example, if “Office” is a favorite and the user frequently travels there on weekday mornings, it should rank highly on Monday morning. The system should support low-latency recommendations, handle cold-start users, adapt to changing user behavior, and scale to millions of users.
Discussion:
- HLD
- Trade off choosing a tech
- Domain seperation
- Scalabiltiy
Round 4 — Hiring Manager (CTO)
Duration: [60 mins] - Onsite
Questions:
- Why Rapido?
- Why are you looking for a change?
- System design discussion on driver-rider matching, with extensive deep-dives and grilling.
- What excites you and keeps you motivated every day?
My experience:
This was the most grilled interview, he was expecting a good engineer and was also looking leadership quality.
Round 5 — HR (30 min virtual)
Questions:
- General QA first
Then, situational and behavioral questions to assess how you handle different scenarios.
Overall Experience
The interview process was 5 rounds and took approximately 28 days.
Difficulty: Medium-hard
Topics to prepare:
- System Design
- Distributed Systems
- Kafka
- Databases
- Leadership
Outcome: Selected
Hope this helps others preparing for the Rapido Lead Professional I role. Good luck! 🚀