SDE 1 || Kotak Mahindra Bank || Bar raiser
May 2, 2026 · 3 reads
Summary
Interview experience for SDE 1 role at Kotak Mahindra Bank, including DSA, LLD, and distributed systems rounds.
Full Experience
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.
Interview Questions (2)
1.
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.
Distributed Systems Concepts
Other
Questions related to caching strategies, load balancing techniques, horizontal vs vertical scaling, and general principles of building scalable distributed systems.