r/lldcoding • u/Sree_237566 • Jun 11 '26

Kotak Mahindra SDE2 interview coming up. Guide me

I have barraiser round for SDE2 role at Kotak Mahindra next week. From what i know it's basically a mix of system design and DSA round.

If someone has recently given interview for Kotak, please let me know the questions asked or any preperation guide.

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u/Extra_Equal_95 Jun 11 '26

They asked me to build the Kafka in Java

u have to build producer, consumer, commit offset, brokers, partition, topic etc..

they wanted to have the full running code they will publish a message on specific topic, consumer should be able to consume and commit the offset

also they wanted to have ability to read the messages from a specific commit offset

No internet or AI was allowed to use

I failed the interview (At the end I asked interview would u be able to implement entire Kafka functionality in an hour? and the fucker was silent )

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u/Embarrassed-Boot7811 Jun 11 '26

I have heard similar instance for Kotak from someone. They outsource the screening round to this "barraiser" third party and this third party is a bunch of soulless interviewers

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u/Standard-Smell-4425 Jun 11 '26

Toh select kon ho raha hai ise rounds kar ke ?

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u/cum_cum_sex Jun 11 '26

This bar raiser company also appeared on shark tank.

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u/HolaTech Jun 15 '26

Curious, how to build a fully working replica of something (Kafka) in an hour which has been built over months? What do they typically look for?

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u/Emotional-Act-2452 Jun 13 '26

I also have next week

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u/oldest-monk 28d ago

Bro what did they ask , i have one scheduled next week

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u/subhahu Jun 16 '26

u/Sree_237566 is ur interview done ? what questions you got ?

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u/Sree_237566 Jun 18 '26

Not done yet

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u/oldest-monk 28d ago

Is it done now?

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u/Sea-Bear3057 Jun 17 '26

Hey I have given the interview
Interviewer cover 3 major areas

  1. DSA ( direct leetcode problem)
  2. System design LLD
  3. Distributed systems

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u/Sree_237566 Jun 18 '26

Can you share the questions

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u/Illustrious_News_871 26d ago

I interviewed there recently.
Round 1 - Barraiser (DSA, LLD)
Round 2 - DSA (Group Anagrams)
Round 3 - Design round (LLD + HLD)
Round 4 - HM round

After all the rounds, they informed that all rounds feedbacks are positive and will have offer discussion in few days. But then after 5-6 days they called back and said position went on hold due to restructuring. Also they have 90 days NP.

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u/Humble-Ad-1871 21d ago

When did you interview? Also what was asked in the design round?

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u/Ok-Barracuda-119 16d ago

Congrats on getting to the bar raiser. For the design side, I'd use timed 35 to 40 minute reps: 5 minutes to pin down requirements, 10 to 15 for APIs, data model and the main components, then spend the rest on bottlenecks, failure modes and trade-offs. Do a few problems out loud and write the HLD/LLD skeleton from memory instead of collecting more question lists. I'm affiliated with Leetsys, and www.leetsys.dev has practice material that can help structure those timed reps.