Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My bar raiser experience was heavily centered on DSA, LLD, and what felt like CS fundamentals.

The overall flow leaned toward distributed-systems style thinking, and the evaluation felt demanding rather than just “solve a LeetCode and move on.” I remember the DSA component being treated as more than practice problems, because the round also kept connecting back to lower-level and systems concepts as the discussion progressed.

Beyond the bar raiser, the rest of my process followed a fairly direct structure: a DSA round with a medium LeetCode problem, then an LLD Java round where Apache Flink came up with a top-tier engineering panel. The final part was an HR round focused on

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