Kotak Mahindra Bank Backend Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey started to feel intense right away because the process I experienced was two fully technical rounds back-to-back.

There wasn’t any questioning that felt directly tied to the job description they shared beforehand. Instead, both rounds concentrated on the same core areas: low-level design, high-level design, and medium-level DSA LeetCode problems.

In one of the LLD discussions, I was asked to design an inventory-management-style system for a food delivery scenario. On the DSA side, I remember doing tasks like binary search and sliding window, and the level felt like it required solid implementation plus good problem breakdown. After the second round, the uncertainty became its own kind of

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