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Zomato | SDE 1 | Gurgaon | September 2023

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Off campus opportunity
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SDE 1 role - Backend

Round 1:

  • Tell me something about urself. [5 minutes ]

  • Discussion about internship and follow ups. How would you scale the work you did during internship. Discussion around DynamoDB [40 minutes ]

  • DSA question : brute to optimised [10 minutes ]
    Similar to : https://leetcode.com/problems/kth-largest-element-in-an-array/

Round 2:

  • Interviewer gave his intro and told about his work, and asked questions on that. How would you approach/ what is benefit of doing this/ Why we should do this/ How would we take care of this situation type question related to Zomato. [ 35 minutes ]
  • My intro [ 2 minutes]
  • System design question - Design an image upload system [45 minutes]
  • what protocol will you use?
  • Write CRUD Api's
  • Status code, request, response, headers
  • SQL query
  • Optimise query
  • indexing

Round 3

  • Cultural fit round at Zomato HQ Gurgaon [30 minutes]
  • Normal discussion, why do you want to join zomato, your expectations

Verdict : SELECTED

Note: Both technical rounds happened on Google doc
Focus on DSA Leetcode (Medium - Hard ) , DBMS and System design
They did not asked me much DSA, but they deep dived into System design in both rounds.
Hope for best, prepare for worst.

Compensation details : https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/4068145/Zomato-or-SDE-1-or-Gurgaon-or-Sept-2023
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