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4 Round 1: (Written Round)

Zoho is a small Indian company focused on online app development that pays around 4.5 lpa. The recruitment process at Zoho has 4 rounds - two written rounds testing programming logic and aptitude, followed by two technical interviews that can last up to 6 hours. The interviews rigorously assess a candidate's programming fundamentals and ability to logically solve problems. Only a small number of candidates who clear all rounds are selected, as Zoho aims to thoroughly evaluate each applicant's technical skills.

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4 Round 1: (Written Round)

Zoho is a small Indian company focused on online app development that pays around 4.5 lpa. The recruitment process at Zoho has 4 rounds - two written rounds testing programming logic and aptitude, followed by two technical interviews that can last up to 6 hours. The interviews rigorously assess a candidate's programming fundamentals and ability to logically solve problems. Only a small number of candidates who clear all rounds are selected, as Zoho aims to thoroughly evaluate each applicant's technical skills.

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Hello Folks,

Zoho is a relatively small company mainly focusing online app development. They pay around
4.5 lpa. In my college there were no eligibility criteria constraint on number of arrears, history
marks etc. Zoho has 4 rounds two written and two interview.
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 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 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 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 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 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 through 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 INdiaGeeks Team

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