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Zomato SDE (Software Development Engineer) Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 27 Aug 2022

Zomato SDE (Software Development Engineer) Interview Experiences

2 interviews found

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Aug 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

1 hour round, DSA questions on stacks and hash maps

Round 3 - Coding Test 

1 hr round, DSA Q's and Puzzle

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be well versed with Data structures like hashmap, trees, linked list, arrays and SQL.

I was interviewed in Jul 2016.

Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. One with the group I'm going to work with
  • Q2. One with the project lead
  • Q3. One with the CTO
  • Q4. One with the Head, HR

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resumes were shortlisted and based on that 100 students got to the next round

Round: Test
Experience: 3 programming questions were given
Tips: Prepare algorithms and data structures well
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Skills: Data Strrutures, Algorithmic Approach To Problem Solving, Knowledge About Database Managements Systems, Operating Systems, Computer Networking, Inter Person Communication Skills
College Name: NIT Durgapur

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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Apr 2021. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 Coding Ques + Aptitude

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Question on Hash Maps

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Amazon SDE (Software Development Engineer) interview:
  • Algorithms
  • Data Structures
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Practice Question from Leetcode and Codeforces.

I was interviewed before May 2016.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Write a program to calculate the sum of level order tree
  • Ans. 

    Program to calculate sum of level order tree

    • Traverse the tree level by level using BFS

    • Add the values of each level and return the sum

    • Use a queue to store the nodes at each level

    • Handle edge cases like empty tree or null root

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Applied through referral and after the review my resume gets shortlisted.

Round: Test
Experience: 6 program and their outputs are given. We have debug the program to get the desired output.
Duration: 11 hours 20 minutes
Total Questions: 6

Round: Test
Experience: Have to write a code for 2 problems.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 2

Skills: Behavioural Skills, LOGICAL THINKING ABILITIES, Technical Skill

Skills evaluated in this interview

I was interviewed in Aug 2016.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. A variant of Longest Increasing Subsequence
  • Ans. 

    Find the length of longest increasing subsequence in an array.

    • Use dynamic programming to solve the problem efficiently.

    • Maintain an array to store the length of longest increasing subsequence ending at each index.

    • Traverse the array and update the array for each index.

    • Return the maximum value in the array as the length of longest increasing subsequence.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Maximum of every window of size K in an array
  • Ans. 

    Find maximum of every window of size K in an array

    • Iterate through the array and maintain a deque of indices of elements in the current window

    • Remove indices from the front of the deque if they are outside the current window

    • Remove indices from the back of the deque if their corresponding elements are smaller than the current element

    • The front of the deque will always contain the index of the maximum element in the current

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Binary Search in a semi infinite array
  • Ans. 

    Implement binary search in a semi-infinite array.

    • Start with the first element and keep doubling the index until the target element is less than the current element.

    • Perform binary search on the subarray from the last doubled index to the current index.

    • If the target element is not found, repeat the process by doubling the last index and searching again.

    • Handle edge cases where the target element is at the first index or n

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Some MCQs on Networking,OS,etc. were asked and 3 coding questions on linked list,etc. were asked.
Tips: Be fast and confident.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 32

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interviewer asked my name and interests and then went about with the questions.
Tips: Must be strong in algorithms and data structures.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I was initially unable to solve it but I asked for some hints which were enough.
Tips: Take your time and ask for hints if required.

College Name: IIT Varanasi

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The selection procedure consisted of one online round followed by 4 face to face interviews.
1st round consisted of 20 MCQs of C/C++ and general aptitude. They shortlisted only 11 B.Techs after first round. Then we had 4 separate interviews out of which one was Bar Raiser round (which is most important).

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Each interview was of around an hour. They mainly emphasized on data structure part. I got a lot of questions from tree and linked list and few were based on Operating System's concepts. For most of the questions, they asked me to come up with more than one approach and also they introduced many variations in between. After the discussion of approach, I was supposed to write the complete code on paper.Each round was kind of elimination round and the Bar Raiser round was most important of all.

General Tips: For improving coding skills, first code basic searching, sorting and graph algorithms.Then try to program few random questions of trees and linked list while studying there concepts. Then practice some questions from sites like codechef or codeforces and also try to participate in the competitions that take place on these sites.For Operating Systems, just go through the book written by "S Galvin" and try to clear concepts of memory management part.
Apart from these main topics, just have a glance at these few topics:
Database : Basic Queries, Indexing, Transaction
OOP : Definition with understanding of four features of OOPs.Among non-technical stuffs, practice some famous puzzles (just Google it).
After all these done, just keep on solving interviews questions being updated regularly at geeksforgeeks
Overall Experience was very good and challenging as it was the very first day of placement and our interviews went till 4 in the morning. So when the result came, we were very excited.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal

I was interviewed before Jan 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 22

College Name: Manipal University Jaipur

I was interviewed in Dec 2016.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Convert expression to post-fix
  • Ans. 

    Convert an expression to post-fix notation.

    • Start with an empty stack.

    • Scan the expression from left to right.

    • If the scanned character is an operand, output it.

    • If the scanned character is an operator, pop two operands from stack, output them in post-fix notation and push the result back.

    • Repeat until the end of expression.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Maximum continous sum in an array of integers
  • Ans. 

    Find the maximum continuous sum in an array of integers.

    • Use Kadane's algorithm to find the maximum subarray sum in linear time complexity.

    • Initialize two variables, one for current maximum sum and another for overall maximum sum.

    • Iterate through the array and update the variables accordingly.

    • Example: For array [-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4], the maximum continuous sum is 6 (from index 3 to 6).

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I interned at Amazon, which allowed me to skip round 1.
Tips: Just go through questions on geeksforgeeks and practice on hackerrank, almost all of the questions will come from them.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The discussion was mainly focused on my interests and what all I had learned from my previous experiences.
Tips: You should show your passion for the technology here. What fascinates you the most in tech. Are you a curious one. Don't try to fake here as it might backfire.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 2 programming questions.
Tips: If you have give a sincere effort in practicing to solve algorithmic problems you should be good.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I had gone through this code on geeksforgeeks, so I had a basic idea of the approach and hence I was able to solve it. This round was taken by the manager and we mostly discussed my interests.
Tips: A genuine interest in any particular field will be of great help.

College Name: IIT

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Questions based on resume and coding questions
  • Q2. Questions from various courses I took which I mentioned in my resume

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Out of 20 MCQ's ,I think I solved 13-15 MCQ's Correctly. I solved easy MCQ's first and spent sometime on tough one's.
MCQ's were simple to tough I/O questions ,OS Questions etc.
In coding round they asked one D.P problem and one problem related to stack . I solved the stack question. So I can say
I did OK on this round and got selected to Interview.
Tips: Get comfortable with Data structures and Algorithms, and also have some basic idea of OS,DBMS.
Duration: 1:30 minute
Total Questions: 22

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The Interviewer was friendly and first he asked questions about my projects, previous internship etc .
He then gave me a question related to B-Tree and asked me to tell the algorithm. First I gave naive solution, then he told me to improve efficiency. Though I took some time, I eventually arrived at a efficient solution. He asked to code that algo in any programming language. so I coded the algo in Java within 10 minutes. He went through my code thoroughly and corrected some minor mistakes. After this he asked if I have any questions for him, I then asked some questions related to work profile. After this round I was called for another techincal round. This round lasted for 50 minutes.
Tips: I prepared from geeks for geeks for interviews and I think it helps a lot. Think out loud as Interviewer also observes your thought process.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This round was a breeze as the Interviewer was very warm and he asked me various questions related to the courses
I took. I think he asked questions related to prob theory,OS,discrete Maths etc. I answered most of them correctly.
This round lasted for 45 minutes.
Tips: As said above think out loud and have a good presence of mind. It helps if you revise the courses mentioned in your resume.

General Tips: Practice programming a lot, preferably from Hacker rank etc. Come prepared for the Interview.
Don't panic and have a fresh mind for interview
Skills: Programming, problem solving
Duration: 2 Months
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: It's a good company,offering a decent stipend and one more thing it's in Hyderabad which is my hometown.
Funny Moments: Nothing that I remember of.

Interview Preparation Tips

General Tips: Be prepared to answer questions like why flipkart? , why shouldn't I hire you? , why did you choose cs?, which is your proudest moment.
Choose wisely the questions you attempt.
Skill Tips: Solve the course lab questions on your own. Pick a site that suits you and practice there. Read about the company before you go for interviews. If the interviewer asks you to ask a question use that opportunity to learn more about the company. AmbitionBox helps in getting familiar with the type of questions that the company asks.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
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