Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The BarRaiser round I experienced was tougher on reasoning through efficiency.

On the DSA side, I had binary search questions that started with a brute-force angle and then pushed me to optimize, with time complexity discussion as a constant theme. That same “move from simple to better” expectation carried into the system design portion.

For system design, I got discussions around design patterns, distributed systems concepts, consistency, and caching. I also had to design something like a file processor using an event-style approach, which required me to connect the architecture back to the flow of events.

The distributed systems part also stayed conceptual and

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