The 1st Interview experience

Good afternoon.
06.04.2025

I am Sam from tamil nadu, I completed my college in 2024. In college I didn't study or prepare for zoho later they came to our college, But I was not prepared for the placement. Our college placement cell said that this year most of the companies are not coming to our college due to the recent recession. Any ways they came to out college, I am so weak in math (Aptitude), and the first round was aptitude I sucked at it and kicked out after the first round. It happened in 2023. Later I came to know about a sir who was working in zoho and he was in  placement duty on our college. 

I failed:

At that time I dont know anything to the zoho level. I know basics of coding in Java and C, I was studying front-end development. But that was useless. One day my father spoke about the zoho company. And he knows a employee there and that employee is willing to refer me. I was excited, but I literally dont know anything. That sir said he will conduct 3 mock interviews. If i pass all the 4 he will refer me. I started preparing for the mocks(coding rounds). First mock interview came and I struggled solving pattern program, pattern program is the first Question in the coding round, even though I prepared that was tough. I took more than 40 mins to solve that pattern program then I got another question related to String and solved it at ease. after the 1st mock interview he gave me the feedback, and I started working on that I started to master pattern printing program. 2nd Mock came around, And I attend it, he gave 2 pattern program and I solved at within 5 minutes. He appreciated me for that. following the pattern programs I got 2 more array and string related program and I solved that too. He said i am ready to attend the zoho first round (coding round). But there was another coding round that is Low-level design (lld) round, It is Advance Coding round. he asked me to prepare for it i started preparing. I 1-2 lld programs. But before the 3rd Mock the interview came around. So 3rd mock was cancelled and I was sent to Attend the interview. The zoho company had 4 rounds for referred candidates, Basic Coding round, Advanced coding round, Technical HR round, HR round. 

06.09.2024 September 6th 2024 

1st Interview at Zoho Off Campus:                                                                                                                           Yes! I was very confident that I will crack the first coding round, and I will struggle to crack the second round But I thought I will surely crack all of them and get placed. My parents had a lot of hope in me. I went to the company with a bright smile. And I saw 100 people who were there to attend the interview, (Round 1)The interview came and gave us the first question, and that question was so easy because I solved it already. Then within 2 mins I solved it and showed it to the interviewer. He run some test cases and it worked, then he gave the 2nd question. and it was a matrix question I dont know nothing about it,  It was like rotate the array 90 degree. I struggled a lot and I tried that question for 50 mins, but the allotted time for one question is 30 mins but i had like 1 hour because I completed the first question within 2 mins. I wrote down the matrix indexes and started working on that and I brought up the answer It was close to perfect but two number didn't rotate. And the interviewer politely came to me and said. "You didn't solve it, but it is the easiest question to solve, Come next time". I dont know what to do, I asked him give me extra 5 mins to solve. He gave , he was a good guy. But I was unable to solve it. With a heavy heart I left that place. But When i entered that place the zoho campus. It was so good. I started loving it, I started to admire it. I got a feel that, If i work there my life will get settled. I can take care of my family and friends. I just loved it. After rejected I called the sir, and said about the thing, he was so kind and said wait for 3 months and try again later