Zoho Software Engineer interview experience

The first round was paper-based with aptitude questions and Java output prediction style questions. It felt manageable at the start, but I still had to keep moving because everything needed to be completed within the allotted time. The second round shifted into coding where I solved multiple LeetCode-like problems, plus at least one question that tested my understanding of patterns and arrays (including things like merging two sorted arrays with two pointers, finding frequency, and separating even/odd positions).

Then the process moved into longer-form technical evaluation. I ended up