Krutrim, founded by Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal, is building India's sovereign AI stack: LLMs trained on Indian languages, inference infrastructure, and AI-native products.
About Krutrim
Krutrim (meaning 'artificial' in Sanskrit) is India's first AI unicorn, founded by Bhavish Aggarwal (Ola's founder) as a spinoff. It builds Indian-language AI models and is working on custom AI chips.
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Initial screening call with a recruiter or engineer (30 minutes)
Technical rounds: coding problem-solving and system design or ML systems discussion
Founder or senior-leader round: vision alignment, ability to work with ambiguity, first-principles thinking
Offer and compensation negotiation
Screening Call (30-45 min)
background discussion, motivation for joining Krutrim, and one light technical question.
Technical Round 1 (60 min)
1-2 coding problems at medium-hard difficulty; may include system design for an LLM-adjacent feature.
Technical Round 2 (60 min)
deep-dive on a past project or an ML systems design question covering inference, batching, or training infrastructure.
Founder or Senior-Leader Round (45 min)
strategic thinking, first-principles problem decomposition, and culture fit for a high-velocity startup.
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