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Flipkart GRiD 8.0
Flipkart's flagship engineering challenge for students - open across Software Development, AI Engineering, and Data Science tracks, with the top teams flown to Flipkart's Bangalore HQ for a live hackathon in front of leadership.
Brabble editorial · Updated 12 Aug 2026 · Official page
Particulars
- Organiser
- Flipkart
- Mode
- Online through Round 3, national finals in person at Flipkart HQ Bangalore
- Prize / outcome
- Cash prizes plus internship/full-time role pipeline (recent editions: up to ₹2 lakh)
- Team size
- Individual through the qualifying rounds; teams of 4 at the national finals
- Application fee
- Free
- Rounds
- 4
What it is
Flipkart GRiD started as a coding contest and has grown into what Flipkart now bills as a full-scale AI accelerator: students tackle real e-commerce problems at Flipkart's scale across three tracks - Software Development, AI Engineering, and Data Science. Registration and the early rounds run fully online and are free to enter; the top performers are flown in for a final, in-person hackathon.
Rounds
01. Round 1: Profile screening
Shortlisting based on academic consistency, achievements, and overall profile strength - projects, coding contests, hackathons, and internships on record can all matter here.
02. Round 2: Coding assessment
Shortlisted students take a 90-minute proctored coding assessment. Evaluation weighs coding ability, technical aptitude, and how many test cases cleared against the round's cutoff.
03. Round 3: Case study & code
Participants receive a real Flipkart business problem and must build a technical solution or working system against it - practical system thinking matters more here than textbook DSA.
04. Round 4: National finals
The national finals run at Flipkart HQ in Bangalore for the top performers (recent editions: top 48, 16 per track). Finalists present to Flipkart leadership directly.
Who can enter
- Students pursuing B.Tech/B.E., M.Tech/M.E., M.S., PhD, dual-degree, or integrated-degree programmes at an Indian engineering college
- Specific graduating-year windows apply each edition (recent editions targeted 2027-2030 graduates for Bachelor's/Master's, 2027-2031 for PhD/dual-degree) - check the current edition's exact cutoff before registering
- Free to enter, fully online except the final in-person round
What you actually get
The strongest incentive is the hiring pipeline: candidates who clear the later rounds are shortlisted for summer internships, winter internships, or full-time roles at Flipkart depending on their year of study, on top of the recognition of reaching the in-person finale.
Frequently asked questions
- Four: profile screening, a 90-minute proctored coding assessment, a case-study-and-code round using a real Flipkart business problem, and the national finals at Flipkart's Bangalore HQ for the top performers.
- No - it's open to engineering students broadly, across B.Tech/B.E., M.Tech/M.E., M.S., PhD, dual-degree, and integrated-degree programmes, and spans three tracks: Software Development, AI Engineering, and Data Science.
- The main outcome is a hiring pipeline: final-year students are considered for full-time SDE roles and winter internships, third-year students for summer internships - on top of presenting directly to company leadership at the national finals.
- No - GRiD is versioned by edition, and the version number climbs every year. GRiD 6.0 was an earlier edition; the current live edition is GRiD 8.0. Always check the version number on Flipkart's own registration page before assuming an older guide still applies.
- A 90-minute proctored round evaluating coding ability and technical aptitude, scored partly on how many test cases your submissions clear against the round's cutoff - closer to a standard competitive-programming assessment than an open-ended project brief.
- Recent editions have run without resume shortlisting at the entry point - registration and Round 1 profile screening are based on the details you submit on the platform itself, not a separately uploaded resume. Confirm this on the current edition's registration page, since format has changed between editions.
- Based on performance at the finals and current year of study, candidates are shortlisted for summer internships, winter internships, or full-time Software Development Engineer roles - the exact track depends on whether you're a third-year or final-year student at the time.
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More guides
Checked against Flipkart's own GRiD 8.0 registration materials and aggregator reporting, 12 Aug 2026. Track structure, graduating-year cutoffs and the exact round count have changed between editions - confirm on Flipkart's official GRiD page before registering.