Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

The call didn’t feel like a typical conversational screen; it was pretty direct and stayed focused on evaluating how I think. The whole interaction was described as a Bar Raiser round, and I walked through a problem-solving discussion as part of it.

The core part I remember most was a data-structures-and-algorithms style problem tied to a tree. The prompt asked about a tree with N nodes where each node has a coin value attached to it, and I worked through how I would analyze and solve it from there. The session was relatively short and the feedback never moved beyond that first stage.

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