Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview for Kotak’s Software Engineer role ran as a single structured technical session that split into three parts: problem solving, LLD, and HLD.

The total time was about 1.5 hours, and the flow felt intentionally organized around DSA first, then moving into design-style thinking.

The first and most concrete pieces were two DSA questions. One was about finding the minimum length subarray whose sum is greater than or equal to a target, which I solved using a sliding window approach to get linear time. The rest of the work stayed within the same DSA framing for the problem-solving portion, before the discussion shifted toward the low-level and high-level design expectations.

After that full 1.5-hour sequence, I didn’t move further than

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