Zoho Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Freshers

Topics to prepare for Zoho Software Developer Intern interview:

• Java

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - The questions will be asked from the basics. So keep your basics strong

Round: Test
Experience: This round is all about solving problems using a computer programs, in other words designing programs in such a way as to solve the problem. An important thing here is that importance is given to logical flow, not to program syntax or correctness. Here are the rules given by them:

Program can be written in any language.
Programs may not be syntactically correct.(awkwardly true)

They want people who can visualize a program in there head logical developers or in other words syntax can be looked out of a book.These are the questions:

find the number of times a given pattern of string appears in a given string
display the elements from two arrays which do not belong to both the arrays
to display a pascal triangle pattern
sql query to do some basic operations on database
to transfer contents of a file to another file

Round: Test
Experience: This is a aptitude test consisting of 25 questions and no multiple choice. Topics covered include permutation & Combination, profit & loss, percentage , time , probability and a few random type questions. It is important that you answer only the questions you know. They set a cut-off and select a given number of people who are above the cut off for the interviews.In my case 13 people, not the top 13 mark wise , just 13 people who are above the cut off. Totally about 130 students attended the written rounds, out of which 13 were selected for the interview rounds.
Once you clear the first 2 rounds you have to wait for a long time before they call you.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The technical interview was hard and deep enough to know the programming strength of the candidate. The duration of interview varied from minimum 3 hours to even 6 hours for some candidates. The topics covered are the very basics of programming – data types, arrays, pointers, data structures, OOPS concepts, file handling, DBMS etc. For most of the student they started out by asking the very basics – right from tokens then they slowly go step by step up to the advanced concepts. Also they focused a lot of pointers (I was questioned for 45 mins in pointers and also data structures). There were also some puzzles asked in a few interviews , basically fillers between programming questions

juice filled in a 24 litre bottle to be split equally into three parts using an 8 litre, 5 litre, 11 litre bottles.

Don’t say empty everything and we have split into 3 equal volumes on 0L each.
Ans 1: split into 8L
fill 8L bottle from 24L bottle
pour contents on 8L bottle into 11L bottle
fill 8L bottle
now we have 8L in 24L,8L and 11L bottles

profit or loss if a horse is bought for 60 rs, sold for 70, again bought for 80, then sold for 90.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interview was purely technical – even resumes were not seen – and anti adaptive – if one was found that he/she doesn’t know about pointers, he was questioned in pointer for the next half hour till he/she says “I dont know pointers”. For non IT students, the interview was difficult for their level but was easier than the IT stream students. They were tested how far they are able to solve problems in a logical way – puzzles were asked in more. There were literally no HR questions at all.This interview is more or less like the previous one, same content and duration.
Zoho is a hard one, you have to be thorough with the basics in order to make it in. The thing is since its a small company they make sure everyone they take is good. Out of all that attended only 4 were selected.

Skills:
College Name: ACCET-Karaikudi

Round: Test
Experience: APTITUDE(1 hr and 20 minutes-20 questions): Problems on average, probability, time & distance, alligation&mixture,ratio, HCF & LCM and few a puzzles.TECHNICAL(45 minutes-10 questions): Output for C questions. Practice questions in geekquiz.com and C output questions in geeksforgeeks.org. Questions in pointers, strings, matrix etc.Nearly 60 students were selected out of 600 candidates. They didn’t select the top 60. They had a cutoff and those who cleared the cutoff were called for the next round

Round: TEST
Experience: 1. Write a program to give the following output for the given input

Eg 1: Input: a1b10

Output: abbbbbbbbbb

Eg: 2: Input: b3c6d15

Output: bbbccccccddddddddddddddd

The number varies from 1 to 99.2. Write a program to sort the elements in odd positions in descending order and elements in ascending orderEg 1: Input: 13,2 4,15,12,10,5

Output: 13,2,12,10,5,15,4

Eg 2: Input: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

Output: 9,2,7,4,5,6,3,8,1 3. Write a program to print the following output for the given input. You can assume the string is of odd lengthEg 1: Input: 12345

Output:

1 5

2 4

3

2 4

1 5

Eg 2: Input: geeksforgeeks

Output:

g s

e k

e e

k e

s g

f r

o

f r

s g

k e

e e

e k

g s 4. Find if a String2 is substring of String1. If it is, return the index of the first occurrence. else return -1.Eg 1:Input:

String 1: test123string

String 2: 123

Output: 4

Eg 2: Input:

String 1: testing12

String 2: 1234

Output: -15. Given two sorted arrays, merge them such that the elements are not repeatedEg 1: Input:

Array 1: 2,4,5,6,7,9,10,13

Array 2: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,15

Output:

Merged array: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,15 6. Using Recursion reverse the string such asEg 1: Input: one two three

Output: three two one

Eg 2: Input: I love india

Output: india love I 19 cleared this round and they were called for the next round. The next round took place on the next day

Round: TEST
Experience: 1) Design a Call taxi booking application

-There are n number of taxi’s. For simplicity, assume 4. But it should work for any number of taxi’s.

-The are 6 points(A,B,C,D,E,F)

-All the points are in a straight line, and each point is 15kms away from the adjacent points.

-It takes 60 mins to travel from one point to another

-Each taxi charges Rs.100 minimum for the first 5 kilometers and Rs.10 for the subsequent kilometers.

-For simplicity, time can be entered as absolute time. Eg: 9hrs, 15hrs etc.

-All taxi’s are initially stationed at A.

-When a customer books a Taxi, a free taxi at that point is allocated

-If no free taxi is available at that point, a free taxi at the nearest point is allocated.

-If two taxi’s are free at the same point, one with lower earning is allocated

-Note that the taxi only charges the customer from the pickup point to the drop point. Not the distance it travels from an adjacent point to pickup the customer.

-If no taxi is free at that time, booking is rejectedDesign modules for1) Call taxi booking

Input 1:

Customer ID: 1

Pickup Point: A

Drop Point: B

Pickup Time: 9



Output 1:

Taxi can be allotted.

Taxi-1 is allotted



Input 2:

Customer ID: 2

Pickup Point: B

Drop Point: D

Pickup Time: 9



Output 1:

Taxi can be allotted.

Taxi-2 is allotted (Note: Since Taxi-1 would have completed its journey when second booking is done, so Taxi-2 from nearest point A which is free is allocated)Input 3:

Customer ID: 3

Pickup Point: B

Drop Point: C

Pickup Time: 12



Output 1:

Taxi can be allotted.

Taxi-1 is allotted 2) Display the Taxi detailsTaxi No: Total Earnings:

BookingID CustomerID From To PickupTime DropTime Amount



Output:

Taxi-1 Total Earnings: Rs. 400



1 1 A B 9 10 200

3 3 B C 12 13 200



Taxi-2 Total Earnings: Rs. 350

2 2 B D 9 11 350 These were just sample inputs. It should work for any input that they give.

Those who finished both the modules within 3 hours and if it worked for all the inputs they give, those candidates were given extra modules to work with.Only 9 candidates made it to the next round

Round: HR Interview
Experience: She asked me some family details and gave some scenarios and asked me to what I will do in such situations(like if I am given the power to change 3 things in India, what all will I change) and a few general questions.I didn’t get direct placement in ZOHO but I got an internship offer. If I perform well in my internship, I will get an offer. Round 3 was the toughest and if you perform exceptionally well and as they expect in that round, you will definitely make it through.

College Name: NA

Round: Test
Experience: Round 1:(written round) This round is all about solving problems using a computer programs, in other words designing programs in such a  way as to solve the problem. An important thing here is that importance is given to logical flow, not to program syntax or correctness. Here are the rules given by them:Program can be written in any language.Programs may not be syntactically correct.(awkwardly true)They want people who can visualize a program in there head logical developers or in other words syntax can be looked out of a book.These are the questions:find the number of times a given pattern of string appears in a given stringdisplay the elements from two arrays which do not belong to both the arraysto display a pascal triangle patternsql query to do some basic operations on databaseto transfer contents of a file to another file

Round: Test
Experience: Round 2:(written aptitude)This  is  a aptitude test consisting of 25 questions and no multiple choice. Topics covered include permutation  & Combination, profit & loss, percentage , time , probability and a few random type questions. It is important that you answer only the questions you know. They set a cut-off and select a given number of people who are above the cut off for the interviews.In my case 13 people, not the top 13 mark wise , just 13 people who are above the cut off. Totally about 130 students attended the written rounds, out of which 13 were selected for the interview rounds.Once you clear the first 2 rounds you have to wait for a long time before they call you.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Round 3:(Technical Interview)

The technical interview was hard and deep enough to know the programming strength of the candidate. The duration of interview varied from minimum 3 hours to even 6 hours for some candidates. The topics covered are the very basics of programming – data types, arrays, pointers, data structures, OOPS concepts, file handling, DBMS etc. For most of the student they started out by asking the very basics – right from tokens then they slowly go step by step up to the advanced concepts. Also they focused a lot of pointers (I was questioned for 45 mins in pointers and  also data structures). There were also some puzzles asked in a few interviews , basically fillers between programming questionsjuice filled in a 24 litre bottle to be split equally into three parts using an 8 litre, 5 litre, 11 litre bottles.Don’t say empty everything and we have split into 3 equal volumes on 0L each.Ans 1: split into 8Lfill 8L bottle from 24L bottlepour contents on 8L bottle into 11L bottlefill 8L bottlenow we have 8L in 24L,8L and 11L bottlesprofit or loss if a horse is bought for 60 rs, sold for 70, again bought for 80, then sold for 90.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Round 4:(Again Technical interview)The interview was purely technical – even resumes were not seen – and anti adaptive – if one was found that he/she doesn’t know about pointers, he was questioned in pointer for the next half hour till he/she says “I dont know pointers”. For non IT students, the interview was difficult for their level but was easier than the IT stream students. They were tested how far they are able to solve problems in a logical way – puzzles were asked in more. There were literally no HR questions at all.This interview is more or less like the previous one, same content and duration.Zoho is a hard one, you have to be thorough with the basics in order to make it in. The thing is since its a small company they make sure everyone they take is good. Out of all that attended only 4 were selected.Good LuckRegards

College Name: NA