Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first round for the SDE-I role ran through an external vendor and was framed as a BarRaiser round.

It lasted about 1.5 hours and stayed broad: DSA, LLD, and HLD all showed up. The DSA questions were mostly LeetCode-style problems—things like Climbing Stairs and merging two sorted arrays in place.

For low-level design, I was given requirements for a library management system and asked to define entities and relationships as part of the design. The interviewer wanted the structure to be clear rather than me jumping straight into coding. Overall, I felt the round moved fast across topics and kept me thinking end-to-end, from data structures to the shape of a design.

Difficulty felt average,

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