Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

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HyderābādPosted Mar 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first round was intense: I had to solve a program question involving a “battle ship” style setup with coordinates on an x and y axis, and it ran for more than two hours.

The environment felt focused on coding and algorithmic thinking, and I remember it as one of the hardest interview experiences because of how long and deep the work was.

After that coding stage, the topics expanded quickly into Java, microservices, and heavy algorithm/data-structure work. There was also a practical coding requirement around taking a list and converting it to only distinct values using streams.

The difficulty for me was very difficult, and I didn’t end up with an offer. My honest takeaway was that the interview measured endurance as much as problem-solving—it pushed hard,

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