Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the recruiter call, the process moved quickly into a technical set of rounds where I ended up clearing everything except the HR discussion, which was still waiting to be scheduled.

My first technical round focused on DSA with two medium problems—one was binary search and the other involved a priority queue. The second round shifted into tradeoffs and scaling plus database indexing topics, and then I got an LLD-style prompt for an e-commerce cart system where I had to write pseudocode.

By the third technical round, the difficulty felt higher: I was given a medium-to-hard DP problem, followed by Java questions. The Java part included multithreading topics and pseudocode for handling a large file in chunks, plus JMM-related discussion. The round also touched Kafka and

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