Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Kotak Mahindra Bank SDE2 interview in Hyderabad lasted about 1.5 hours, and it was all concentrated into a single round taken by the bar raiser team.

The format surprised me because it felt like a rapid-fire mix of coding and design rather than separate specialized sessions.

I started with a coding question to convert roman numerals to integers, then did a longest common prefix problem. After that, I moved into an LLD task for a food-delivery app, where I had to think through a schema as well as an API and the classes involved. The round closed with another set of questions, and the interviewer kept drilling into the structure of my thinking—how I connected requirements to data models and interactions.

Even though I was able to keep up,

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