I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Zomato (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Sept 2025
Interview
Three rounds were scheduled, first pure technical, second technical and mostly System Design, third with Engineering Manager.
A SDE 3 took the first round, was chill wholesome guy, told me to be friendly and not be nervous, started with discussion on my projects, what, whys and hows, discussed about Websockets and authentication, then designing a rate limiter for API gateway, optimized with Redis. Then we went to DSA, he asked two simple questions, one was with string and arrays which i solved, optimized but best solution was with Tries which i give. Some simple SQL and NoSQL discussion, then some networking, Throttling, ended with general discussion, culture and expectations.
I was expecting that i cleared this round and was very confident for System Design round.
Well I couldn't clear it, what I think is they expect full clarity and almost perfect answers, so if you seem a little confused or not direct it won't help it.
Given an 2d vector of characters 0, 1, 2 and another vector of strings made of characters 0, 1 , 2. I have to search 1d vectors in first 2d vector corresponding to strings in second vector. question was modified, different conditions and constraints were given after every solution.
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zomato (Bengaluru) in Jul 2023
Interview
Standard Zomato process. Online assessment followed by two technical rounds. First interview round consisted of questions related to resume projects, medium level DSA questions, and other usual things. Only 2 people were selected for second round. Then I was rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Detailed difference between SQL and NoSQl Databases, advantages and disadvantages of both.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Zomato (Bengaluru) in Jul 2024
Interview
The Zomato SDE fresher interview process typically involves an online coding test, followed by 2-3 technical interviews focusing on data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving, a managerial round assessing behavioral and project experience, and an HR round for cultural fit and salary discussions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Merge two sorted arrays
Design an LRU (Least Recently Used) cache.