Zomato·Software Engineer

Zomato Software Engineer interview experience

Entry LevelPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Zomato interview for SWE-1 started with a discussion with a Senior Engineering Manager, and it was tightly focused on payments system design.

The central prompt was to design an end-to-end payments flow, and I had to talk through the orchestration step by step.

Chargebacks came up as a key follow-on area. I remember structuring my explanation around the lifecycle of a payment—how it moves from initiation through processing and what needs to be in place for failure handling—then layering on how chargebacks would be represented and managed in the overall flow.

Even though the conversation was only one round, it felt dense because they weren’t just checking if I had heard the buzzwords. They wanted the reasoning behind the flow:

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