Kotak Mahindra Bank Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For the SDE 2 role, my process was essentially a single heavy first round.

It started with a discussion about my background—what I’d done in previous work and what I’d found most challenging—and then the conversation quickly moved into a DSA prompt centered on trees.

The problem was to reason about a tree with N nodes where each node i had Ci coins attached to it. I had to work through the logic starting from that setup, and it was clear the interviewer wanted a structured approach rather than a quick guess. In the experiences I’m summarizing here, that tree-based prompt was the anchor of Round 1, and it ultimately ended there.

I was rejected after that first

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