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)
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?
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