Over java, definitely (if both the interviewer and interviewee are familiar with Kotlin). It's way more concise, so especially when you write without an IDE, it makes it easy to manipulate on a whiteboard or a Google Doc.
I used Kotlin for an interview in the past, and the interviewers were not familiar with it, but were ok as long as I was able to explain what the peculiarities that they didn't understand. It was very nice of them, but it must be harder to judge as an interviewer. In any case I was pretty happy to be able to use it, because I didn't need 10 sheets of paper :D