Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through the SDE-1 process at Kotak Mahindra Bank where the interview flow was split across multiple technical components: DSA, LLD, and then distributed systems (and I also had HLD-style DBMS/distributed systems questions as the process progressed).

The Bar Raiser first round was the clearest time-boxed block—about 90 minutes—broken into three segments.

In that first 90-minute session, I had 30 minutes for two DSA questions, 30 minutes to do low-level design like designing a database schema for a Swiggy-style application, and 30 minutes to handle a distributed systems question related to the topic area being discussed. Across the whole process, the LLD part tended to emphasize design and class structure, with not as much expectation to produce code immediately, while the distributed systems/HLD discussions went deeper into things like

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