Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a BarRaiser-style first round that felt like a mix of DSA, low-level design, and distributed systems.

The whole thing lasted about 1.5 hours, and it leaned pretty hard on fundamentals—there wasn’t much time spent on my resume. On the DSA side, I got classic array problems like Two Sum and also a buy/sell stocks style question. Then the low-level design part had me design a food delivery system along the lines of Swiggy/Zomato, where I had to talk through classes, relationships, and how the pieces interacted rather than focusing on writing a full implementation.

After that, distributed systems came in with conceptual questions around topics like consistency and distributed workflow ideas, and

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