Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

The bar raiser round was dense and combined multiple areas at once: a data-structures-and-algorithms question on finding the minimum length subarray with a sum constraint, and then an LLD-style component tied to designing an e-commerce flow. The whole thing felt like they wanted to see both problem-solving and how I’d translate requirements into a clear design.

My second round continued the same theme but stayed focused on coding fundamentals. I worked on the same minimum-size subarray problem as the core prompt, and the evaluation felt very performance-oriented—did I get the right logic and