I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Visa Inc. (Austin, TX) in Feb 2021
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me after applying online on their website. Had a phone screen and then had an online assessment. Was moved on to the technical interviews. Technical interview round consisted of 4 rounds although in one of the rounds, the interviewer was an entry level software developer out of college who was only a few months into the job at Visa - this to me, was ridiculous! This was followed by an interview with a director and was offered the position.
They have a ridiculous compensation philosophy when it comes to external experienced hires vs. college new grad hires - college hires get a joining bonus, stock compensation, etc but external experienced hires don't get anything as a part of the compensation package outside of the base and an annual bonus. For such a big company, negotiation didn't yield even a single cent even with valid reasons and after them gathering all the documentation they wanted to substantiate that reason.
Overall, a barely professional process with red flags all along the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical questions you'd expect for this role involving coding out data structures and algorithms and also questions to test your knowledge on the tech stack that you will be working on.
Online assessment round is first round with data structure and algorithms with array sorting algorithms on hacker rank which was moved recently. There were two questions and they were very very difficult
I applied online. I interviewed at Visa Inc. (London, England) in Mar 2026
Interview
I went through the process twice for two separate applications, about 3–4 months apart. The steps were mainly LeetCode, system design, and cultural fit interviews. If you’re solid on most medium-level LeetCode problems, you should be fine.
The process itself isn’t particularly difficult, but I think it’s mostly a numbers game since there are a lot of candidates competing.
The negative part was the communication from HR: constant ghosting and timelines that were never respected. I only found out I had been rejected after my second follow-up asking for feedback, more than a month after the last interview, and only once I started sounding frustrated in my messages.
Applied through careers page, received link for OA. The assessment was on CodeSignal, has 4 questions. 2 are easy, 1 medium and 1 hard. I solved 3 questions completely, did't receive interview invite
