What is the interview process like at Visa?

Visa's engineering loop is built around a proctored CodeSignal online assessment (usually four questions in 70-90 minutes, scored out of 600), followed by two technical interviews and a hiring-manager or lead round, often compressed into a single day for campus hiring in India. Technical rounds mix a moderate DSA problem with a long resume and project deep-dive plus CS-fundamentals quizzing on Java/Spring, OOP, DBMS, SQL, operating systems and networking. Senior roles add distributed-systems and design discussion. Non-engineering hiring (corporate finance, FP&A, pricing strategy, Visa Consulting & Analytics) skips coding entirely and runs a recruiter screen, a recorded video interview and a prepared case-study presentation or back-to-back behavioral panels. Candidates repeatedly describe friendly interviewers but slow, patchy recruiter communication.

What topics does Visa test in interviews?

Commonly reported topics include Data structures & algorithms, Arrays & strings, Dynamic programming, Graphs, OOP, DBMS.

Visa Interview Questions & Experience

Software Engineer (campus, Meet Visa event)

Not selected

New grad. 4 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2025-07-23

1Technical assessmentOnline assessmentA timed coding set of four problems, weighted toward arrays with one dynamic-programming and one graph question.Covered: Arrays & strings, Dynamic programming, Graphs
2Technical interviewTechnicalAn hour that opened on the resume projects then swept through OOP pillars and virtual-function edge cases, browser DOM concepts, network topologies and security, SQL key constraints, and basic data-structure comparisons.Covered: Past projects, OOP, Networking, SQL, Data structures & algorithms
3Managerial roundHiring managerAnother hour revisiting the project stack listed on the resume, then designing a heap/priority-queue from scratch and closing on a weighing-balance style puzzle.Covered: Past projects, Low-level design, OOP, Puzzles
4HR roundBehavioralA conversational round about motivation and technology interests, ending with open-ended prompts on how the candidate would improve digital payment products and cryptography.Covered: Behavioral, Domain knowledge

Software Engineer (full-time)

Received an offer

New grad. 4 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2024-10-28

1Online assessment (CodeSignal)Online assessmentFour problems in 70 minutes on CodeSignal, roughly two easy and two medium, mixing string manipulation, digit collapsing, grid simulation and query-based counting.Covered: Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms, Matrix simulation
2Technical interviewTechnicalAn hour on Teams blending ML theory the candidate had on their resume with small coding problems and operating-systems questions on memory translation and kernels.Covered: Machine learning, Trees, Operating systems, Data structures & algorithms
3Technical interviewTechnicalA wide-ranging hour on REST, containers, cloud services, data preprocessing, string problems, OS scheduling and process models, plus design-pattern and inheritance questions and a server-troubleshooting scenario.Covered: API design, Concurrency, Operating systems, OOP, Debugging
4Technical + HRHiring managerA shorter closing round on monolith-versus-microservices trade-offs, software lifecycle process, plus situational questions about deadlines and unfamiliar technology, and motivation for Visa.Covered: Scalability, Operating systems, Behavioral, Past projects

Software Engineer (campus)

Received an offer

New grad. 4 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2022-09-21

1Online test (HackerRank)Online assessmentA 90-minute test with two medium DSA problems on arrays and strings plus one question requiring a live REST API call and data extraction.Covered: Arrays & strings, API design
2Technical interview 1TechnicalExplaining the project as a flowchart in plain language, then one string DP variation, followed by internship questions.Covered: Past projects, Arrays & strings, Dynamic programming
3Technical interview 2TechnicalTwo medium coding problems, normalization forms applied to a given table, OOP pillars with an overloading exercise, a blockchain and cryptography discussion, and designing a coding-contest backend.Covered: Data structures & algorithms, DBMS, OOP, System design, Domain knowledge
4Technical + managerialHiring managerMotivation for Visa leading into how Visa's own network and UPI-style rails work, some quantitative questions, and a network-security discussion.Covered: Domain knowledge, Networking, Behavioral

New Graduate Software Engineer

Received an offer

New grad. 4 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2024-01-28

1Coding test (CodeSignal)Online assessmentFour questions spanning one easy, two medium and one hard, mostly array and hash-map based.Covered: Arrays & strings, Hashing, Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interview 1TechnicalA one-hour slot with a 20-minute palindromic-substring coding exercise followed by resume questions and CS fundamentals on processes, threads and cloud computing.Covered: Arrays & strings, Concurrency, Past projects
3Technical interview 2TechnicalA scenario framed as modelling three animal kingdoms, which is really an inheritance and polymorphism design exercise, then DBMS ACID and normalization, the OSI layers and language trade-offs.Covered: OOP, DBMS, Operating systems, Networking, Past projects
4Lead interviewSystem designA 30-minute design conversation about a food-delivery app: module breakdown, stack choices front to back, security hardening and performance, closing on strengths and weaknesses.Covered: System design, Scalability, Behavioral

Software Engineer (lateral, Bangalore)

Not selected

Experienced. 4 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2025-09-03

1Technical interview 1 (onsite)TechnicalAn in-person 45-60 minute round with three coding problems (palindrome check, a heap-based kth element, a two-pointer/sorting problem) plus OOP pillars, collection trade-offs and overloading versus overriding.Covered: Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms, OOP, Past projects
2Technical interview 2 (onsite)TechnicalA deep Java-language round on string identity and immutability, why main is declared the way it is, data types, plus cloud and container questions.Covered: Java internals, Past projects, Containers
3Managerial roundHiring managerResume and work-experience discussion, sketching a CI/CD workflow on a whiteboard, and standard strengths and challenges questions.Covered: Past projects, Behavioral, CI/CD
4Online assessment (CodeSignal)Online assessmentAn unusual out-of-order step: the recruiter sent a CodeSignal test a week after the in-person rounds, four questions of which the candidate finished three.Covered: Data structures & algorithms

Data Engineer Associate (summer intern)

Received an offer

Internship. 2 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2023-09-08

1Online coding test (CodeSignal)Online assessmentFour mostly medium-difficulty problems in 90 minutes. Speed of completion drove the shortlist.Covered: Data structures & algorithms
2Technical + HR interviewTechnicalA 45-50 minute Teams call with a senior security engineer covering project architecture, workflow and scalability limits, the project's authentication scheme, one simple coding exercise, then motivation questions.Covered: Past projects, Scalability, Authentication, Behavioral

Software Engineer (campus)

Outcome not shared

New grad. 4 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2025-07-23

1Written testOnline assessmentA broad written test on an assessment platform spanning programming, computer organisation, OS, DBMS and ML, plus two combinatorics-flavoured coding problems. Per-section analytics from this test were visible to interviewers later.Covered: Aptitude, Operating systems, DBMS, Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interview 1TechnicalOpinion questions about Visa's mobile products, a detailed pass over every project, and concurrency concepts drawn from coursework.Covered: Past projects, Concurrency, Domain knowledge
3Technical interview 2TechnicalSoftware-process questions on agile, testing types and QA, what would change to take the project to production, and how bugs were found and fixed.Covered: Testing, Past projects, Debugging
4Fit roundHiring managerA discussion of how data mining and machine learning apply to a payments network's data, and which of the open profiles the candidate wanted.Covered: Domain knowledge, Machine learning

New Grad Software Engineer (Bangalore)

Received an offer

New grad, not stated. 4 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2025-09-26

1Online assessment (CodeSignal)Online assessmentFour DSA problems in 70 minutes covering substring counting, repeated peak removal from an array, a grid-scanning problem and one dynamic-programming question.Covered: Arrays & strings, Dynamic programming, Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interview 1TechnicalA 30-minute round on the project's use of LLMs, front-end framework basics, pointers, OOP pillars and a run of operating-systems concepts around threading, deadlock and memory.Covered: Past projects, OOP, Operating systems, Concurrency
3Technical interview 2TechnicalOver an hour on Spring Boot annotations, token-based auth and refresh tokens, cache replacement policies with an LRU implementation, git workflow questions, then schema plus REST route design for an order-delivery system and a grouped SQL query.Covered: API design, SQL, Low-level design, Authentication
4Lead roundHiring managerA relaxed closing conversation on AI tooling in day-to-day coding, a challenging-task story, a difficult subject at university, and encryption versus hashing.Covered: Behavioral, Security, Domain knowledge

Summer intern (campus)

Outcome not shared

Internship. 2 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2022-12-08

1Online assessmentOnline assessmentTwo problems in an hour at medium-to-hard difficulty, one a two-pointer and sorting exercise wrapped in a word problem and one an inversion-counting variation.Covered: Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms
2Technical + HRTechnicalIntroduction and motivation up front, then a linked-list cycle problem coded from scratch on a shared editor with brute-force to optimal progression and complexity analysis, followed by disk-scheduling theory and role expectations.Covered: Past projects, Trees, Operating systems, Behavioral

Software Engineer (campus)

Received an offer

New grad. 4 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2025-07-23

1Online coding test (HackerRank)Online assessmentFour problems in 90 minutes mixing range-update simulation, a hash-map pair count, a graph connectivity formula and a combinatorics question.Covered: Arrays & strings, Graphs, Aptitude
2Technical interview 1TechnicalProject walk-through with database indexing and archiving follow-ups, and a post-mortem of the assessment problem where test cases had failed.Covered: Past projects, DBMS, Debugging
3Technical interview 2TechnicalSchema and ER design from a scenario, normal forms, relational versus document store trade-offs and query basics in both, then two binary-tree problems.Covered: DBMS, SQL, Trees, API design
4HR roundBehavioralA casual closing round on the most interesting project, what could have been done better, and preferred language.Covered: Past projects, Behavioral

Software Engineer (campus, 6 month internship + full time)

Received an offer

New grad. 4 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2025-07-23

1Coding test (HackerRank)Online assessmentThree problems in 90 minutes, all standard dynamic-programming and array patterns.Covered: Dynamic programming, Arrays & strings
2Technical interview 1TechnicalProject and stack discussion, two light coding exercises used to probe thought process, two SQL queries over employee tables including a second-highest-value query, and the OSI model.Covered: Past projects, Arrays & strings, SQL, Networking
3Technical interview 2TechnicalRelational versus non-relational choices with real examples, handling a million concurrent requests, protocol and websocket questions, development lifecycle, a full run of deadlock theory, a big-number arithmetic coding problem and a marbles puzzle.Covered: DBMS, Scalability, Operating systems, Testing, Puzzles
4Technical + managerialHiring managerQuestions about a payment-gateway integration in the resume and how to respond to an upstream outage, a workplace-credit conflict scenario, a brute-force card-verification thought experiment, and doubly linked list use cases leading into LRU caching.Covered: Past projects, Conflict handling, Low-level design, Domain knowledge

Software Engineering intern (campus)

Received an offer

Internship. 2 rounds. Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (anonymous) on gfg, 2025-07-23

1Online assessment (HackerRank)Online assessmentTwo medium problems in an hour, one bit-manipulation flavoured greedy question and one classic subsequence dynamic-programming question. Only optimal solutions passed.Covered: Arrays & strings, Dynamic programming
2Technical + HRTechnicalIntroduction and a walk through three web projects, then one hard tree dynamic-programming problem solved with a hint, closing on strengths, weaknesses and a stress-handling story.Covered: Past projects, Trees, Behavioral

Senior Software Engineer (Bangalore)

Received an offer

Experienced, candidate says a competing offer forced a slightly improved package. Declined. 3 rounds. Shared by LeetCode Discuss (anonymous) on leetcode, 2023-12-07

1Coding round (CodeSignal, live)TechnicalA 45-minute live session with two interviewers covering a rotated-array search problem and a stock-trading dynamic-programming problem, plus complexity discussion.Covered: Arrays & strings, Dynamic programming, Data structures & algorithms
2Technical / system designSystem designA deep dive into the candidate's current system with concurrency, multithreading and distributed-consistency scenarios, alongside Spring Boot internals, SQL objects and design patterns.Covered: System design, Concurrency, SQL, Java internals, Scalability
3Hiring managerHiring managerA friendly two-way conversation about day-to-day work and ways of working, with the manager describing the team and stack.Covered: Past projects, Behavioral

Senior Software Engineer (Bangalore)

Received an offer

Experienced. 5 rounds. Shared by LeetCode Discuss (anonymous) on leetcode, 2021-05-28

1Online test (HackerRank)Online assessmentThree easy-to-medium coding problems.Covered: Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interviewTechnicalJava and Spring Boot basics plus project discussion, then implementing a custom cache from scratch with a follow-up twist on the same design.Covered: Java internals, Low-level design, Past projects
3Design interviewSystem designCritiquing the candidate's monolithic architecture and proposing improvements, covering load balancing, hashing and encryption, then one array coding problem.Covered: System design, Scalability, Arrays & strings
4Design interviewSystem designA second design-heavy round on sharding, distributed caching and NoSQL choices, with another medium coding problem.Covered: System design, Scalability, DBMS
5Techno-managerialHiring managerFit plus technical, revisiting project architecture and REST/Spring Boot fundamentals before managerial questions.Covered: System design, API design, Behavioral

Software Engineer (Bangalore)

Received an offer

Experienced. 4 rounds. Shared by LeetCode Discuss (anonymous) on leetcode, 2025-06-06

1CodeSignal assessmentOnline assessmentFour questions escalating from easy through hard.Covered: Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interviewTechnicalAbout half the hour on resume and architecture trade-offs (for example why a particular message broker was chosen), then a rate-limiting problem framed on log data, solved with a sliding window and extended to a very large file.Covered: Resume deep-dive, System design, Arrays & strings, Scalability
3Technical interviewTechnicalForty minutes of stack and architecture questioning, then a binary-search-on-answer problem coded with edge cases.Covered: Resume deep-dive, Data structures & algorithms
4Hiring managerHiring managerA grilling on system architecture drawn live on a whiteboard tool, covering scalability and performance trade-offs, plus behavioral questions on collaboration and ownership.Covered: System design, Scalability, Behavioral

Software Engineer (SDE-1, Bangalore)

Received an offer

Experienced, candidate says the eventual offer was below their existing package and declined it. 4 rounds. Shared by LeetCode Discuss (anonymous) on leetcode, 2025-02-19

1CodeSignal assessmentOnline assessmentFour problems at roughly medium difficulty.Covered: Data structures & algorithms
2Virtual technical interviewTechnicalAn LRU cache implementation plus multithreading questions and singleton pattern details around locking and synchronization.Covered: Low-level design, Concurrency, OOP
3Onsite technical interviewSystem designA high-level design of a notification management system with queueing, then resume drill-down on caching, search infrastructure and JVM memory management, and a grid search coding problem.Covered: System design, Resume deep-dive, Data structures & algorithms
4Onsite HR interviewBehavioralStandard HR questions with a few more resume follow-ups.Covered: Behavioral, Resume deep-dive

Software Engineer (SDE-1)

Outcome not shared

Experienced. 4 rounds. Shared by LeetCode Discuss (anonymous) on leetcode, 2025-05-23

1Online coding test (CodeSignal)Online assessmentFour questions rising in difficulty, with the first two easy and the last two medium-to-hard.Covered: Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interviewTechnicalA single graph problem where the adjacency relation had to be inferred from string endpoints, then cycle detection on that graph.Covered: Graphs, Data structures & algorithms
3Technical interviewTechnicalHeld the same day: reconstructing an itinerary from city pairs and identifying the unique starting point, discussed via both a graph traversal and a set-based approach.Covered: Graphs, Data structures & algorithms
4Hiring managerHiring managerBehavioral questions focused on appetite for learning and career growth.Covered: Behavioral

Senior Software Engineer

Not selected

Experienced. 3 rounds. Shared by LeetCode Discuss (anonymous) on leetcode, 2025-11-27

1CodeSignal assessmentOnline assessmentFour questions the candidate found easy with generous time, but under strict proctoring. Feedback came within two days.Covered: Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interviewTechnicalA broad round on Java and Spring internals plus past projects, with a professional interviewer, after the slot was rescheduled at short notice.Covered: Java internals, Past projects, API design
3Technical interviewTechnicalA rushed 40-minute round of largely textbook theory questions asked ad hoc. The candidate answered most and was rejected two days later with a form email.Covered: OOP, Scalability, Domain knowledge

Software Engineer

Received an offer

Experienced. 4 rounds. Shared by Suppi242001 on leetcode, 2025-11-06

1CodeSignal assessmentOnline assessmentFour easy-to-medium problems where time management mattered more than difficulty.Covered: Data structures & algorithms, Arrays & strings
2Technical interviewTechnicalProject role, stack and challenges, plus two array and string coding problems and core language concepts.Covered: Past projects, Arrays & strings, Java internals
3Technical interviewTechnicalA more algorithm-heavy round with coding problems and conceptual follow-ups. The interviewer offered hints throughout.Covered: Data structures & algorithms, Arrays & strings, Past projects
4Hiring managerHiring managerA mix of technical and behavioral, focused on problem-solving approach, teamwork, ownership and motivation for Visa.Covered: Behavioral, STAR stories

Software Engineer (Bangalore)

Outcome not shared

Experienced. 1 round. Shared by LeetCode Discuss (anonymous) on leetcode, 2025-11-08

1CodeSignal assessmentOnline assessmentFour questions of mixed difficulty covering grid simulation, simple conditional logic, a line-traversal simulation and array state updates from an operation list.Covered: Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms

Data Scientist

Outcome not shared

Experienced. 4 rounds. Shared by Hena Kasawatia on blog, 2023-11-12

1Timed technical assessmentOnline assessmentThree timed sections of roughly 15 minutes each over a card-transactions dataset: Python analysis, SQL analysis and modelling ideas, all framed as finding insights rather than as puzzles.Covered: SQL, Python, Machine learning
2ML technical interview (onsite)TechnicalDeep questioning on the exact models on the candidate's resume, including feature selection, algorithm choice, overfitting in boosting, hyperparameter meaning, and choosing a hypothesis test for sampling bias.Covered: Machine learning, Statistics, Resume deep-dive
3Hiring manager (onsite)Case studyThe manager described the team and current projects, then covered feature importance and a customer-propensity case study set in a telecom context.Covered: Case study, Machine learning, Resume deep-dive
4Leadership interviewFinalAn online round with a senior leader that turned out to be technical rather than behavioral, covering reinforcement learning, defining success metrics for a loyalty programme, and validating experiment group representativeness.Covered: Case study, Statistics, Domain knowledge

Full Stack Software Engineer (US)

Received an offer

Experienced. 5 rounds. Shared by u/Interesting_Sky533 (r/leetcode) on reddit, 2025-05-23

1Recruiter screen and assessmentPhone screenA recruiter call confirming Java experience and role fit. The assessment was waived because the candidate had a recent valid CodeSignal general assessment score.Covered: Resume deep-dive
2Hiring manager roundHiring managerA short behavioral round in STAR format tied to Visa's stated principles, which ran well under the scheduled time.Covered: Behavioral, STAR stories, Leadership Principles
3Backend technicalTechnicalBilled as backend-in-Java but delivered as a single string-manipulation coding problem.Covered: Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms
4Frontend technicalTechnicalBuilding a small to-do application in React live, with conceptual questions about component behaviour, data fetching and user flow asked while coding.Covered: Front-end frameworks, API design, Debugging
5Team matchingFinalAfter an initial rejection the recruiter reopened the process and put the candidate through team-matching conversations, which produced an offer.Covered: Resume deep-dive, Behavioral

System Engineering intern (off-campus)

Not selected

Internship. 2 rounds. Shared by u/SuhailSharieff (r/internships) on reddit, 2026-01-21

1CodeSignal assessmentOnline assessmentFour DSA questions scored out of 600. The candidate reports 547 and was put on hold before being redirected to a different role.Covered: Data structures & algorithms, Arrays & strings
2Technical interviewTechnicalA staff system engineer opened with two easy coding problems written live on CodeSignal, then moved into Linux commands, shell scripting, container concepts and infrastructure-as-code and pipeline tooling that the candidate had not used.Covered: Arrays & strings, Linked lists, Operating systems, CI/CD, Containers

Software Engineer, new grad (US)

Not selected

New grad. 3 rounds. Shared by u/PrintSuspicious1449 (r/csMajors) on reddit, 2023-12-08

1CodeSignal assessmentOnline assessmentA standard online assessment that the candidate cleared comfortably before being invited to interview.Covered: Data structures & algorithms
2First-round interviewTechnicalA single first-round interview that went well, though scheduling took weeks of chasing the recruiting team.Covered: Resume deep-dive
3Final round with hiring managerHiring managerA positive conversation with the prospective manager who signalled strong interest, after which the candidate was asked twice to extend a competing offer deadline and then received an automated rejection.Covered: Behavioral, Resume deep-dive

Software Engineer, graduate role

Not selected

New grad. 1 round. Shared by u/After_Department_669 (r/leetcode) on reddit, 2025-11-18

1CodeSignal screeningOnline assessmentFour sections scored out of 600. The candidate scored 315 after spending too long on the hardest section and running out of time on an easy one.Covered: Data structures & algorithms

Software Test Engineer (US East Coast)

Outcome not shared

Experienced. 2 rounds. Shared by u/Own-Kaleidoscope9330 (r/leetcode) on reddit, 2025-06-04

1CodeSignal assessmentOnline assessmentA standard online assessment cleared before the interview loop.Covered: Data structures & algorithms
2Back-to-back interviewsPanelThree consecutive interviews in one sitting mixing coding problems and a system design round. The candidate heard nothing back for over two weeks.Covered: Data structures & algorithms, System design

Visa Consulting & Analytics Analyst (London)

Received an offer

New grad. 3 rounds. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2025-11-01

1Online testsOnline assessmentNumerical, non-verbal reasoning and personality assessments as the first filter.Covered: Aptitude, Personality assessment
2Recorded video interviewPhone screenA one-way recorded interview covering motivation for the firm and the role.Covered: Behavioral, Motivation
3Case presentationCase studyA take-home case issued a week ahead, presented as a short slide deck analysing why an issuing bank was underperforming on card economics, with questions afterwards. Offers were delivered by phone.Covered: Case study, Presentation, Domain knowledge

Consulting & Analytics intern (Budapest)

Not selected

Internship. 2 rounds. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2025-01-01

1Recorded digital interviewPhone screenA three-question one-way video interview submitted after applying online.Covered: Behavioral, Motivation
2Case presentation (final)Case studyA case sent a week before the final round, presented live, followed by questions on motivation for the role. The whole process ran two to three months.Covered: Case study, Presentation

Pricing Analyst, Pricing Strategy (San Francisco)

Not selected

Experienced. 2 rounds. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2010-04-01

1Phone interviewsPhone screenThree 30-minute phone conversations with the hiring manager and peers from the same group, sourced through an employee referral.Covered: Resume deep-dive, Domain knowledge
2Onsite panelPanelA flown-in final round in the San Francisco office with four separate 30-minute VP interviews, heavy on market-sizing questions.Covered: Market sizing, Case study

Business Analyst, Business Development (Austin)

Not selected

Experienced. 2 rounds. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2021-08-01

1Hiring manager screenHiring managerA recruiter reached out a week after the online application and scheduled a conversation with the hiring manager.Covered: Resume deep-dive
2Divisional panelPanelThree back-to-back 30-minute interviews with members of the divisional team. The process ran one to two months.Covered: Behavioral, Domain knowledge

Corporate Finance intern (Foster City)

Received an offer

Internship. 3 rounds. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2018-03-01

1On-campus first roundTechnicalA campus-recruiting first-round interview arranged directly by Visa.Covered: Resume deep-dive, Behavioral
2HR phone screenPhone screenA recruiter phone conversation between the campus round and the final.Covered: Behavioral
3Final with senior managersFinalA video interview with two senior finance managers closing out a one-to-two-month process, ending in an accepted offer.Covered: Financial modeling, Behavioral

Finance intern, FP&A (Foster City)

Not selected

Internship. 1 round. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2020-02-01

1Three interviewsPhone screenA three-interview loop mixing behavioral and technical finance questions, reached through on-campus recruiting. The candidate found the interviewers unusually invested in the candidate experience.Covered: Behavioral, Financial modeling

Finance intern, generalist (Washington DC)

Not selected

Internship. 1 round. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2018-10-01

1On-campus group interviewGroup exerciseA single campus interview run by three current Visa employees, all former interns, consisting of standard behavioral questions and an interest assessment. The candidate never heard back afterwards.Covered: Behavioral, Motivation

Finance Manager (Foster City)

Not selected

Experienced. 1 round. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2023-08-01

1Round 1-3: Panel interviews plus assessmentPanelThree rounds spanning six separate team members plus a personality test over one to two months. The candidate reports never receiving a decision from either the recruiter or the hiring manager.Covered: Behavioral, Personality assessment

Finance Analyst (New York)

Received an offer

Experienced. 1 round. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2021-11-01

1Zoom interview with HR and senior analystsPhone screenA single straightforward video round with HR and senior analysts from the team, run in under a month end to end. The candidate declined the resulting offer.Covered: Behavioral, Resume deep-dive

Senior Analyst (San Francisco)

Not selected

Experienced. 2 rounds. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2016-08-01

1HR callPhone screenA short introductory call from a recruiter, under 30 minutes.Covered: Resume deep-dive
2Hiring manager callHiring managerA hiring-manager phone conversation scheduled two days later, also under 30 minutes. The whole process took less than a month.Covered: Behavioral, Resume deep-dive

Project Management (Santa Clara)

Not selected

New grad. 3 rounds. Shared by Wall Street Oasis contributor (anonymous) on wso, 2021-12-01

1Phone screenPhone screenAn initial screening call after an employee referral.Covered: Resume deep-dive
2Behavioral interviewBehavioralA behavioral-only first interview.Covered: Behavioral, STAR stories
3Technical interviewTechnicalA technical second interview followed by a background check. The process ran two to three months.Covered: Domain knowledge, Resume deep-dive

Senior Systems Engineer (Cloud/DevOps)

Received an offer

Experienced, Bangalore, India. 4 rounds. Shared by Riya Ranjan on youtube

1Technical InterviewTechnicalRoughly an hour with a Bangalore-based tech lead. Started with an introduction and project walkthrough, then AWS fundamentals leading into EC2/patching troubleshooting, Terraform (based on a certification on the resume), and scenario questions on Docker, Kubernetes and Ansible, with difficulty ramped up based on answers.Covered: Domain knowledge, Past projects, Resume deep-dive
2Technical PanelPanelAbout 1.5 hours with two interviewers from the UK and US covering different domains. Scenario and definition questions on AWS, Docker and Terraform, plus a live coding exercise (add lines to a shared code snippet) and a debugging task (find errors in the interviewer's code), then service-specific troubleshooting.Covered: Domain knowledge, Past projects
3Managerial (mostly technical)Hiring managerA ~45-50 minute round with a US-based manager, described as roughly 90 percent technical. Intermediate AWS and Terraform troubleshooting with a lot of cross-questioning, some Linux commands and networking, and a couple of behavioral questions on teamwork and mentoring juniors.Covered: Domain knowledge, Behavioral
4HR / Salary NegotiationFinalA phone call for salary negotiation and document collection (pay slips, notice period, expected salary). Once finalized and approved, the offer letter was released the same day.

Software Engineer

Outcome not shared

Experienced, 35 to 50 LPA. 5 rounds. Shared by CodeView on youtube

1Introductory + JavaTechnicalAn introductory round focused on Java concepts probed in depth, for example the JVM memory model (metaspace, permgen, and the Java 8 changes). Interviewer was described as nice but the questions were not the usual frequently-asked ones.Covered: OOP, Domain knowledge
2System DesignSystem designStraight into designing Instagram, covering both high-level and low-level design. The candidate advises clarifying functional and non-functional requirements, memory estimates, user scale and scalability with the interviewer first.Covered: System design, Low-level design
3Java + Design (same day)TechnicalJava questions (e.g. the random library) followed by a high-level design of a stock-broking application like Zerodha, walking through buyer/seller flow, order settlement lifecycle, tech stack and queuing mechanisms.Covered: Domain knowledge, System design
4Deep technical (~2.5 hours)TechnicalA long round covering Java functional interfaces (including writing your own, plus consumer/function and the try/Optional-style additions), multithreading, then designing a scalable system that queries a terabyte-scale database with ACID guarantees while staying reliable and real-time under heavy load.Covered: Domain knowledge, Concurrency, System design, DBMS
5ManagerialHiring managerIntroduction and a fitment check: whether the candidate's role and tech stack match the team, comfort adopting the project, and an open floor to ask questions about the project or tech stack.Covered: Behavioral, Past projects

Software Engineer

Received an offer

New grad, Bangalore, India, via LeetCode. 4 rounds. Shared by Ashish Kumar on youtube

1Online AssessmentOnline assessmentThree questions (one easy, two medium/hard) focused purely on data structures (arrays and hashmaps, plus stacks and queues) rather than competitive programming. The candidate solved about two and a half.Covered: Data structures & algorithms, Arrays & strings
2Technical (resume + fundamentals)TechnicalA high-level interviewer skipped heavy DSA and instead dug into resume projects, plus SQL, object-oriented programming and CS fundamentals. Rounds vary by interviewer, so others in the same batch got DSA-heavy first rounds.Covered: Resume deep-dive, SQL, OOP, Operating systems, Networking
3Technical (React + DSA + design)TechnicalA React developer probed React basics and hooks (matching the candidate's projects), two string/array DSA problems (pseudocode written and optimized, not executed), and a basic system design question (URL shortener).Covered: Data structures & algorithms, Arrays & strings, System design, Past projects
4ManagerialHiring managerA relaxed manager round starting with getting-to-know-you questions, then technical discussion around security, encryption and authorization (relevant to Visa), looking for willingness to reason and learn rather than exact answers.Covered: Behavioral, Domain knowledge

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