Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

The pre-offer felt like confirmation that things were progressing, but the waiting for the final document created a different kind of tension.

The interview sequence behind that pre-offer included a bar raiser round run by an external vendor, followed by a DSA round, and then an LLD round. I remember thinking that once I’d cleared those stages, the remaining timeline should have been straightforward—but it wasn’t.

Ultimately, the process for me was characterized less by technical stress and more by administrative uncertainty. I didn’t have the final letter in hand right away, and that delay