I am from tier-1 NIT college and recently Zomato has visited our campus for sde full time roles. Below is the detail about my process:-
- Online assessment - All students having CGPA of >= 8.0 were selected for it.
- If you want to know about detail OA I can give you link for the leetcode discuss just comment it.
- Out of all eligible students 18 students were selected for first round of interview and I was one of them.
- Interview:-
- Interviewer was IITian having lots of experience as he began his intro and then I quickly introduced myself.
- Roughly half an was about my backend concepts as my resume includes all backend concepts. So you can expect 30 minutes resumes based questions.
- Then, they asked three DSA questions. First one based on concept of B+ Tree, he went deep into B+ tree asked me complexity of insertion, and questions like what will happen If I increase the order of the node (i.e k). Then Why we are not storing sorted keys on just single array instead of B+ tree and many more questions.
- Second Questions was modification of Deleting a node from BST having two children.
- Last Questions was based on graph+DP concept. This are little bit harder.
If you want full details of questions you can comment below.
I was able to all questions but in last questions I stuck in between and then able to solve the questions by taking hints from the interviewer.
I was not selected for further round. I don't know the exact reason behind that but I think they want 100% accuracy from candidate in all 3 DSA question they asked me.
If you know anything that could be the reason for my rejection you can comment it.
Result-> ❌ Rejected!