Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into an SDE2 bar raiser round and I didn’t feel confident after the DSA part.

The interview covered a mix: there was a design prompt around a parking lot system, a distributed-systems question, and then a DSA question that involved word ladder. I remember getting stuck in the DSA segment and not landing on the optimized solution, and the rest of the discussion felt like it couldn’t fully recover from that early miss.

The distributed-systems question and the parking lot design were challenging in their own right, but the way the DSA portion went made me expect the result wouldn’t go my way. By the time I finished, I was already mentally preparing for rejection, mainly

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