Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

Posted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for the SDE-I role after a recruiter posted a Google form on LinkedIn, and later I got an email that I’d been shortlisted for a 90-minute interview split into multiple rounds.

The first round focused on DSA with two questions, and it also included a conversation that clarified how low-level design would be handled.

Before I even got into the full design discussion, the interviewer asked where I learned LLD and how I approached it. They also asked a very practical question about whether I’d need to code during LLD or if it would be mostly functional requirements and diagrams like UML.

The DSA round itself was meant to be the foundation, and it kept the pace relatively quick. After that, the process continued beyond the first DSA section, but the part that stayed

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