Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

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Gurgaon, HaryanaPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview for Software Engineer included a deep mix of DSA, LLD, and distributed systems themes.

The DSA + LLD segment also leaned into concurrency and transactions, and I specifically discussed patterns like saga and strategy. The conversation moved through API design and even covered things like singleton usage, and then it escalated into CAP theorem discussion, which made it feel more like systems design under constraints than just implementation details.

Then the LLD part was framed around an Uber-like scenario. I had to work through database design and talk through APIs and how to structure classes and entities. The interviewer kept pushing me to explain the steps as they built, so

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