Kotak SDE-2 Interview Experience | Bar Raiser
I was selected for the SDE-2 role at Kotak after successfully handling DSA, LLD, and system design questions.
23 write-ups · 103 questions
Every Kotak Mahindra Bank SDE 2 interview written up on the site: the rounds, the questions asked, how candidates prepared and whether they got the offer.
Worked out from the 23 Kotak Mahindra Bank SDE 2 write-ups on this site.
Hyderabad (4) · Bangalore (3) · Bengaluru (1) · BLR (1)
I was selected for the SDE-2 role at Kotak after successfully handling DSA, LLD, and system design questions.
I attended the first round Bar Raiser interview for SDE 2 at Kotak in Bangalore, which included DSA coding, low‑level design, and high‑level design questions.
I completed a 90‑minute Bar Raiser interview for an SDE2 Backend role at Kotak in Hyderabad; the interview covered DSA coding, system design, and distributed systems...
I was interviewed for a SDE 2 Backend role at Kotak and faced two DSA coding questions, an LLD design discussion, and several HLD topics.
I completed three interview rounds for an SDE-2 role at Kotak, covering DSA problems, system design, and distributed systems, but I have not yet received a final...
I interviewed for an SDE II Backend Engineer role at Kotak in India. I cleared the first two rounds but was rejected after the final HLD/LLD interview.
I completed three interview rounds at Kotak for an SDE 2 role: a Bar Raiser with two easy string DSA questions, a second round with a Word Ladder problem and a...
I attended a BarRaiser round for an SDE‑2 position at Kotak Mahindra Bank, where I was asked a longest common prefix problem, an event ticket booking system design, and...
I interviewed for an SDE2 position at Kotak Mahindra Bank in Hyderabad, but was rejected.
I interviewed for an SDE 2 role at Kotak Mahindra Bank in Bangalore, completed a Bar Raiser round (DSA, LLD, HLD) and a second DSA round, but was rejected after the...
I interviewed for an SDE2 role at Kotak Mahindra Bank in Hyderabad and completed a 1.5‑hour round covering coding, design, and distributed‑system questions.
I interviewed for the SDE2 role at Kotak Mahindra Bank, experiencing rounds covering DSA, LLD, and HLD, including specific problems like 'Remove All Adjacent Duplicates...
I interviewed for the SDE 2 Backend role at Kotak Mahindra Bank, undergoing three challenging rounds covering DSA, LLD, and Distributed Systems....
I interviewed for an SDE 2 position at Kotak in Bengaluru, encompassing rounds on Data Structures & Algorithms, Low-Level Design, Core Java concepts, SQL, High-Level...
I participated in a machine coding interview round for a SDE2/3 Backend Developer role at Kotak Mahindra, where I was challenged to design and implement a Battleship...
Data Structures & Algorithms · Medium · asked 5 times
Data Structures & Algorithms · Easy · asked 4 times
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System Design · asked 2 times
System Design · asked 2 times
Data Structures & Algorithms · Easy · asked 2 times
Data Structures & Algorithms · Medium · asked 2 times
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Across 23 Kotak Mahindra Bank SDE 2 interview experiences shared on Interview Experiences, the questions asked were mostly system design (50% of reported questions), data structures & algorithms (45% of reported questions), other (6% of reported questions).
Candidates rated most Kotak Mahindra Bank SDE 2 questions as medium (46% of rated questions). Easy: 26%, Medium: 46%, Hard: 28%.
0% of the 3 candidates who reported their result received an offer. People who share their experience are not a random sample, so treat this as a rough guide.
Questions reported more than once include "Search in Rotated Sorted Array", "Longest Common Prefix", "Roman to Integer", "Distributed locks", "Network partitioning".
The median candidate had 3.8 years of experience.
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