Kotak·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen
Jun 2026
Did a React Native SDE 1 interview at Kotak. Three parts: architecture concepts, a live UI coding task, and a JS problem. No heavy DSA, which was a nice change from the usual grind.
- How does React Native work under the hood? Walk through both the old and new architecture.
- Build an item listing page in a live editor: search bar at the top, a list of items below it, and filtering logic that updates the list as you type.
- You're given an invalid URL. Write a function to validate it, append query parameters if it's valid, and handle the invalid case gracefully.
“This is the kind of question that sounds easy until you're actually mid-explanation and realize you're not sure where to stop.”