Zomato·Software Engineer

Zomato Software Engineer interview experience

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Gurgaon, HaryanaPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a three-round setup and it felt like each interviewer zeroed in on different layers of the same skill set.

In the first round, the discussion started with my projects—what I built, why I made the choices I did, and how I implemented them. The conversation included topics like WebSockets and authentication, and then it turned into a practical design problem: designing a rate limiter for an API gateway, including optimization with Redis.

After that, the round moved into DSA. I was asked two simpler questions involving strings/arrays and I solved them, but I remember one where tries led to the best solution, which I demonstrated. We also touched on light SQL/NoSQL discussion and some networking

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