Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying through a recruiter for an SDE-2 role, I went through a pretty technical sequence that felt like it ramped up in difficulty.

The DSA portion included things like brute force and optimization around binary search, and I had to talk through time complexity as I moved from the naive approach to something more efficient.

Then the interviews shifted toward system-level thinking. I got questions that covered system design and design patterns, plus distributed-system topics like consistency, and how caching fits into the design. The LLD part also leaned practical and object-oriented: I had to design a file-processing component using an event-style approach, and the interviewer focused on how I modeled entities/classes

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