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Zoho.

A suite of 50+ business apps (CRM, Mail, Books, Desk, People) covering sales, marketing, finance and HR, built and hosted in-house.

its questions lean on
  • console-app machine coding
  • object-oriented design
  • choosing data structures
  • booking and reservation flows
  • transactions and state

The rounds, as candidates describe them

  1. Aptitude and technical MCQ90 minutes of aptitude and programming-output questions.source ↗
  2. Coding assessmentAbout 3 hours of DSA problems of rising difficulty.source ↗
  3. Advanced programming (LLD)A 3-hour console application with many modules, such as a railway reservation system; output must work for the given inputs.source ↗
  4. Technical interviewsIn-depth discussion, then an HLD round (an online ticket booking platform) with an algorithm question.source ↗
  5. HRPersonal and behavioural round, then package discussion.source ↗

Reported by candidates

From public interview write-ups; each links its source.

Likely, from what they build

Our pick, not a report: questions that fit Zoho's products.

Study path

Every lesson the questions above point to, once, in order.

  1. 01SQ-11IRCTC Tatkal Ticket Booking System
  2. 02LLD-05Design a Movie Ticket Booking System
  3. 03SQ-16BookMyShow Seat Booking
  4. 04SQ-09Uber
  5. 05LLD-01Design a Parking Lot
  6. 06IP-03Design a Distributed Key-Value Store
  7. 07W05 · DAY 01Consistency Models
  8. 08W09 · BOSSDesign a Multi-Tenant Enterprise SaaS Platform
  9. 09LLD-02Design an LRU Cache
  10. 10IP-11Design a Distributed Cache
  11. 11W06 · DAY 01Notification Platform — Problem Understanding & High-Level Design
  12. 12W07 · DAY 02Indexing Pipeline
  13. 13IP-10Design a File Sync Service (Dropbox / Google Drive)
  14. 14W09 · DAY 01Tenant Isolation Strategies
  15. 15W09 · DAY 03Data Residency and GDPR

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