Applied for Kotak SDE-1 role (India). I filled out a google form posted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. Got an email that I was shortlisted and below were the questions asked and format of interview.

90 mins interview.

3 rounds.

Round 1 - DSA (2 Questions)

* https://leetcode.com/problems/plus-one/description/
* https://leetcode.com/problems/climbing-stairs/

Round 2 - LLD

* Design a food delivery system. 
* Main focus was on DB choice for restaurant browsing.
* Design DB schema.
* APIs for any one module

Round 3 - Distributed Systems

* What is idempotency?
* What are LOCKS and where are they used?
* Why are replicas needed and what are the tradeoffs that come with it?

Applied for Kotak SDE-1 role (India). I filled out a google form posted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. Got an email that I was shortlisted and below were the questions asked and format of interview.90 mins interview.3 rounds.Round 1 - DSA (2 Questions)