SDE 1 || Kotak Mahindra Bank || Bar raiser

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2 May 2026
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Summary

Interview experience for SDE 1 role at Kotak Mahindra Bank, including DSA, LLD, and distributed systems rounds.

How it went

This is the first round which was taken by a third party.

Round was for 90 min.

30 min dsa--
2 dsa question

30 min LLD --
Design a DB schema for swiggy application (as provided on the other sources same question)

30 min Distributed system--
Question related to cache, load balancer , scaling and other common topics.

Questions asked (2)

  1. 01

    DB Schema Design for Food Delivery App

    Data Structures & Algorithms

    Design a database schema for a food delivery application like Swiggy, considering entities such as users, restaurants, orders, menus, payments, etc.

  2. 02

    Distributed Systems Concepts

    Other

    Questions related to caching strategies, load balancing techniques, horizontal vs vertical scaling, and general principles of building scalable distributed systems.

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