ZOHO Offcampus Interview Experience 2025

🚀 My Zoho Off-Campus Drive Experience – April 4th, 2025

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.

🔹 Round 1 – Aptitude + Java Snippets

This was the first and major filtration round.
We had 20 questions in total:

• 10 Aptitude questions – Medium level (time, speed, probability, logical reasoning)
• 10 Java code snippet questions – Tough and conceptually heavy

⏱ Duration: 75 minutes
✅ Only 90–100 students were shortlisted from the original 1500 in this round!

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 – Data Structures & Algorithms

This was a coding round with 7 questions of medium level.

The topics included:

• Trees (e.g., Validate BST)
• HashMaps
• Arrays & Strings
• Sliding Window problems (both fixed and variable size)

The questions asked in this round were

• 1. Validate BST
• 2. length of longest substring having distinct characters
• 3. Check palindrome
• 4. FInd first missing Positive
• 5. Number of substring having exactly k characters
• 6. Find the first non repeating character in a string in 1 pass
• 7. I forgot this question and it was easy itself

✅ Around 40–50 candidates cleared this round.

Tip: Focus on conceptual clarity and edge case handling. Practicing on platforms like LeetCode or GeeksForGeeks really helps here.

🔹 Round 3 – Low-Level Design (LLD)

This round was unexpectedly challenging.
We were asked to design a Task Manager application, and the interview was structured in 8 progressive steps:

• Starting from basic design
• Adding persistence using local file storage
• Handling multiple edge cases and improving functionality step by step

✅ Only 10–15 students made it to the next technical face-to-face round mostly all of them got selected ig.

Unfortunately, this is where my journey ended.

❌ My Outcome & Personal Thoughts

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.

📝 Final Tips for Future Aspirants

• ✅ 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.

📍 A Note on the Journey

I travelled 600 km for this drive with a lot of hopes, and though it didn’t go as planned, I’m taking this as a valuable experience. To anyone out there grinding — your day will come too. Just keep showing up. 🙌

Feel free to ask me if you have questions about the process. Good luck to all future Zoho aspirants! 🚀