Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a bar raiser round for an SDE II role that was very structured and tightly time-boxed.

The whole thing ran for about 1 hour 30 minutes, with DSA taking roughly 40 minutes, LLD about 30 minutes, and a microservices-focused segment for the remaining 20. From the start, it felt less like a casual conversation and more like a guided evaluation broken into clear chunks.

For the DSA portion, I was given a problem framed around three types of travel passes—essentially juggling which ticket worked best under different conditions. Then I moved into the LLD discussion where I had to reason through design choices and describe how I’d model the system at a lower level. After that, the

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