Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a bar raiser-style interview that lasted about 1.5 hours and blended multiple technical themes.

It started with a DSA question, then moved into an LLD design for a ride-sharing application. On top of that, there was HLD-style discussion that pulled me into distributed-systems concepts, including CAP theorem-style reasoning.

The DSA portion also included specific string problems such as removing adjacent duplicates and working on a “max consecutive ones” style question. I remember feeling like the bar raiser was checking whether I could switch gears quickly—coding, then design, then theory about distributed consistency—all without losing clarity.

After the interview, I waited and never

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