Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

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Bangalore RuralPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My LLD round was scheduled early in the SDE-2 process and it caught me off guard because the focus felt narrow.

The interviewer told me the problem and I had to implement it on my own in my IDE, and then the interviewer seemed mostly interested in understanding what I did rather than exploring new directions.

I was assigned a battleship-style problem and I built an implementation, but the interviewer wasn’t open to alternative approaches I tried to bring up. That dynamic made the round feel a little rigid—like correctness was needed, but experimentation wasn’t really valued.

By the time it ended, I was satisfied that I’d delivered a working solution, but I still wondered whether my reasoning about

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