Kotak SDE 1 Interview Round 1
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Mar 17, 2026

The interview was divided into 3 parts - DSA , LLD and Distributed Systems Questions. (1.5 hour exact)

DSA - both were Leetcode easy

(1) Two Sum
(2) Length of last word in a sentence.

LLD

Design Swiggy/Zomato - she was focused on API designs, want to hear Design Principles (OOP + SOLID) and Patterns.

Standard Distributed Systems Questions - CAP Thm, Eventual and Strong Consistency , API Status Codes

She asked a order question: If your system is crashing, which replication you will focus on the most. The options were : Database , Cache , Message Broker , Server.

The correct answer was : Server -> Cache -> Broker -> DB

The feedback was positive!!

I feel this is a good resource : https://mentorcruise.com/questions/distributedsystems/

Kindly tell if anyone has any idea about how much time do the HR team takes to call back!!

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