Interview Experiences

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VisaSoftware Engineer I
Aug 2026

CodeSignal OA and Two Technical Rounds

CodeSignal online assessment Array operations: given arrays A and B, count the pairs for which A[i] + B[j] equals a specified target. Matrix rotation and boundary handling: rotate an N by N matrix clockwise, then perform special calculations on boundary elements according to specified conditions. String processing and sliding window: find substrings in a long string that match a specified pattern…

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VisaSoftware EngineerSenior+
Aug 2026

Online Assessment with Perfect Substring and Connected Groups

Online Assessment First question: Perfect Substring Given a string s made up only of digits, and an integer k, we need to find the number of substrings that satisfy a specific condition: every distinct digit character that appears in the substring must appear exactly k times. Input: string s and integer k Output: the total count of substrings satisfying the condition Example: if s = "11020211" an…

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VisaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Visa Software Engineer interview: short Java and algorithms round

My Visa interview lasted about 30 minutes and moved quickly. I began with a coding question and had around five minutes to produce a solution. That was followed by a logical puzzle. The interviewer then tested object-oriented programming and Java fundamentals, including implementing inheritance. The last part was a binary-search problem: I started with a brute-force approach, explained how I woul…

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VisaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Software Engineer interview at Visa

Visa began in a standard way with an OA and then technical rounds. In CodeSignal Round 1, I had a medium array problem, a deep resume discussion, Docker and Kubernetes questions, and basic database-query material. Round 2 was more coding-heavy and asked me to implement an LRU cache. I got working LRU-cache code, but the interview ended around the 50-minute mark, leaving expected material uncovere…

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VisaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Visa Software Engineer interview experience

After finishing the OA, I was selected for the next step. The interview combined a resume walkthrough with coding and fundamentals. They focused on my projects and hackathons, then asked at least one DSA question. The coding question was cycle detection in a linked-list-like structure, requiring me to reason through how to identify a loop. We also discussed CS fundamentals, situational questions,…

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VisaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Visa Software Engineer interview: payment states, retries and reference checks

I started with an online HackerRank test, then had a series of virtual interviews. The first technical round covered data structures, algorithms and system design. Later conversations went deeper into design and leadership. The DSA questions felt like familiar structured problems, but I still had to find a correct approach under time pressure. In system design, I needed to explain trade-offs in d…

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VisaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Visa Software Engineer Interview Experience: Abrupt and disengaged technical round

The technical round was scheduled for 60 minutes and was meant to cover coding plus low-level design, but it ended after about 30 minutes. The interviewer never turned on the camera. When I tried to explain my approach before coding, they told me to start coding and shut down even small attempts to align or ask clarifying questions. There were long silences around a single coding prompt, and the…

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VisaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Visa Software Engineer Interview Experience: Repeated postponements before pair programming

I applied through Visa's careers site and started with an online assessment containing two coding questions focused on dynamic programming and the two-pointer technique. The interview process was where it fell apart. My first-round interview was postponed twice just before its scheduled start. On the third attempt, I joined and waited about 15 minutes before contacting the recruiter. They said th…

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VisaSoftware Engineer
Sep 2025

Warehouse-Capacity Routing and a Pair-Sum-With-Updates Problem

Questions one and two were pretty easy, I don't really remember them. Three: The prompt was long. You're given an int array representing the capacities of warehouses 0 through n - 1, plus an array of events. Events are either "PACKAGE" (process one package) or "CLOSURE X" (close warehouse N). Packages start being processed at warehouse 0, and once a warehouse hits capacity, the next warehouse tha…

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VisaProduct Manager
Oct 2024

Recruiter Says Passing Round One Doesn't Guarantee a Second Interview

10/10 phone screen with Visa. At the start, the recruiter first confirmed my visa type, whether I need sponsorship, whether I could do hybrid at least two days a week, and confirmed there's no relocation sponsorship — then the actual questions started. Tell me about yourself Why do you want to apply for this position How do you make the product roadmap — tell me about your experience working on a…

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What are interview experiences?

An interview experience is a candidate's own account of a hiring loop — not a question bank entry. It tells you the shape of the process: how many rounds there were, what each round actually tested, how long the gaps between them ran, and what the recruiter said at the end. That context is the part a question list cannot give you.

How to read them

Weight recent write-ups more heavily — interview loops change, often within a year. Read several for the same company and role rather than one: a single account tells you what one interviewer asked, while five tell you what the bar is. Note the outcome badge too, since a rejection write-up usually explains the gap far more precisely than an offer one.

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