ZOHO Interview Experience for Fresher 2025 {Offcampus}

Hey everyone! I recently appeared for the Zoho off-campus drive held on April 4th, and I wanted to share my experience here. The drive saw a huge turnout of around 1500+ c...

Hey everyone! I recently appeared for the Zoho off-campus drive held on April 4th, and I wanted to share my experience here. The drive saw a huge turnout of around 1500+ candidates, and by the end, only about 10–12 students were shortlisted. Though I couldn’t make it past the third round, I learned a lot and hope this post helps someone preparing for it in the future. Recruitment Process Overview: Aptitude + Java Snippets Coding Round Low-Level Design (LLD)

Round 1 Aptitude + Java Snippets This was the first and major filtration round.
1. Total Questions: 20 10 Aptitude Questions: Medium level (time, speed, probability, logical reasoning) 10 Java Code Snippet Questions: Tough and conceptually heavy 2. Duration: 75 minutes 3. Level: Tough
4. Shortlisted Candidates: Only 90–100 from 1500+ Tip: Make sure you’re strong in both logic-building and Java fundamentals. And yes, practice aptitude thoroughly — it was definitely the toughest round.

Round 2 Coding Round This was a coding round with 7 questions of medium level. Topics Included: Trees (e.g., Validate BST) HashMaps Arrays & Strings Sliding Window problems (both fixed and variable size) Questions Asks: Validate BST length of longest substring having distinct characters Check palindrome FInd first missing Positive Number of substring having exactly k characters Find the first non repeating character in a string in 1 pass Obstacles: Around 40–50 candidates cleared this round. Tip: Focus on conceptual clarity and edge case handling. Practicing on platforms like GeeksForGeeks really helps here.

Round 3 Low-Level Design (LLD) This round was unexpectedly challenging. Design a Task Manager application, and the interview was structured in progressive steps: Starting from basic design Adding persistence using local file storage Handling multiple edge cases and improving functionality step by step Obstacles : Only 10–15 students made it to the next technical face-to-face round mostly all of them got selected ig. Additional Tips Prepare well for Aptitude: This is the most difficult and most important round. LLD Practice is essential : Go beyond just DSA. Get Comfortable with online IDEs: You'll be expected to code in them during interviews. Stay Consistent and Positive : Even if it doesn't work out, every experience counts. Final Outcome Unfortunately, this is where my journey ended. Despite performing decently, I wasn’t shortlisted after LLD. I noticed that most of the candidates selected for the

next round were from Tamil Nadu , and while it may have been coincidence, I felt there may have been some bias — especially considering that a few others and I implemented almost the same solutions as some of the selected candidates. But that’s life — sometimes it's about more than just the code.