SDE 1 || Kotak Mahindra Bank || Bar raiser
- Posted
- 2 May 2026
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)
- 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.
- 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.