Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Before I got into any deep technical work, the recruiter clarified the structure of the process for SDE-2: four rounds—bar raiser, a DSA/problem-solving round, a low-level design round, and then a hiring manager discussion.

The one concrete detail that stood out was that the bar raiser included a battlefield low-level design question.

What I walked away with at the time was a sense that they were looking for breadth across the stack. The bar raiser and the DSA round were framed as separate checkpoints, and then the LLD round was positioned to test how I’d model behavior and interactions at a more detailed engineering level. The hiring manager round was described as the final step, which made the process feel like it was building toward an end-to-end assessment rather than a single coding screening.

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