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Prep/Companies/Zomato

Food & delivery · Gurugram

Zomato.

Food delivery and restaurant discovery, plus District (going-out and ticketing) and Hyperpure supplies, under Eternal.

its questions lean on

notifications at scale
rate limiting
order and delivery-partner data models
Kafka and Redis internals
ads and pacing

The rounds, as candidates describe them

Technical roundsTwo technical interviews mixing DSA, CS fundamentals, resume deep dive and system design.source ↗
Culture fitA final round with a senior engineering leader, usually in person.source ↗

Reported by candidates

From public interview write-ups; each links its source.

Design a Notification SystemSystem design
IP-06 · Design a Notification System →W06 · DAY 01 · Designing a Real-Time Notification Platform →W06 · DAY 04 · Presence and Chat Fan-Out at Scale →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Zomato/District SDE-1 interview experience (2026) ↗LeetCode Discuss · Zomato / Eternal SDE-1 interview experience (2026) ↗
Design a Rate LimiterSystem design
IP-02 · Design a Rate Limiter →W01 · DAY 03 · Rate Limiting at Scale →LLD-03 · Design a Rate Limiter →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Zomato SDE off-campus interview experience (2025) ↗LeetCode Discuss · Zomato / Eternal SDE-1 interview experience (2026) ↗
Design an ad pacing service for restaurant campaignsSystem design
IP-16 · Design an Ad Click Aggregation System →W01 · DAY 03 · Rate Limiting at Scale →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Nugget by Zomato SDE-1 interview experience (2025) ↗
Design a peer-to-peer chess gameSystem design
W05 · BOSS · Multiplayer Game Matchmaking System →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Nugget by Zomato SDE-1 interview experience (2025) ↗
Design the schema for delivery partners and ordersSystem design
SQ-17 · Swiggy Food Delivery →W06 · BOSS · Food Delivery Order System →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Zomato / Eternal SDE-1 interview experience (2026) ↗
Design a paginated transaction-history APISystem design
W08 · DAY 05 · Query Layer and Optimization →W01 · DAY 01 · Partitioning Deep-Dive →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · District by Zomato SDE-1, round 2 (2026) ↗
Design an API that counts orders in the last X minutesSystem design
IP-16 · Design an Ad Click Aggregation System →W08 · DAY 02 · Streaming vs Batch Processing →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Zomato SDE off-campus interview experience (2025) ↗
Design a Snake gameLow-level design
no lesson for this one yetreported in:LeetCode Discuss · Zomato SDE-2 interview experience (2026) ↗
Why is Redis fast while being single-threaded?Concept
IP-11 · Design a Distributed Cache →W04 · DAY 01 · Caching Patterns →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Zomato SDE-2 interview experience (2026) ↗
What happens when Kafka consumers lag behind producers?Concept
W03 · DAY 03 · Backpressure and Flow Control →W03 · DAY 01 · Queue vs Stream →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Zomato SDE-2 interview experience (2026) ↗
How do Kafka partitions affect ordering and consumer idempotency?Concept
W03 · DAY 01 · Queue vs Stream →W02 · DAY 02 · Idempotency in Practice →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · District by Zomato SDE-1, round 1 (2026) ↗

Likely, from what they build

Our pick, not a report: questions that fit Zomato's products.

Design a Food Delivery SystemSystem design
SQ-17 · Swiggy Food Delivery →W03 · BOSS · Event-Driven Food Delivery Order System →
Design a Proximity ServiceSystem design
IP-13 · Design a Proximity Service →
Design a Ticket Booking SystemSystem design
SQ-16 · BookMyShow Seat Booking →LLD-05 · Design a Movie Ticket Booking System →

Study path

Every lesson the questions above point to, once, in order.

01IP-06Design a Notification System
02W06 · DAY 01Designing a Real-Time Notification Platform
03W06 · DAY 04Presence and Chat Fan-Out at Scale
04IP-02Design a Rate Limiter
05W01 · DAY 03Rate Limiting at Scale
06LLD-03Design a Rate Limiter
07IP-16Design an Ad Click Aggregation System
08W05 · BOSSMultiplayer Game Matchmaking System
09SQ-17Swiggy Food Delivery
10W06 · BOSSFood Delivery Order System
11W08 · DAY 05Query Layer and Optimization
12W01 · DAY 01Partitioning Deep-Dive
13W08 · DAY 02Streaming vs Batch Processing
14IP-11Design a Distributed Cache
15W04 · DAY 01Caching Patterns
16W03 · DAY 03Backpressure and Flow Control
17W03 · DAY 01Queue vs Stream
18W02 · DAY 02Idempotency in Practice
19W03 · BOSSEvent-Driven Food Delivery Order System
20IP-13Design a Proximity Service
21SQ-16BookMyShow Seat Booking
22LLD-05Design a Movie Ticket Booking System

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