Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Kotak Mahindra Bank interview experience for SDE roles ended up being three evaluation rounds, all centered on DSA and LLD.

Each round ran roughly between one and one-and-a-half hours, and overall the difficulty felt moderate.

Across the rounds, the interviewers were supportive and would guide me when I started to get nervous. That mattered, because even when I was solving problems, the conversation wasn’t “silent evaluation”—it was more like they were trying to see how I approached thinking under pressure. The questions stayed within that DSA/LLD scope rather than drifting into unrelated topics.

By the end, I felt like I understood the expectations for the style of problem solving they wanted. I didn’t leave

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