Mastercard·Software Engineer

Mastercard Software Engineer interview experience

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PunePosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through Mastercard’s 2025 on-campus software engineer process, and it felt very tightly structured and competitive from the start.

I had to meet a CS/IT eligibility requirement, then after a big pool of applicants I moved on only after an online assessment on HirePro. The test ran about 1.5 hours with two coding questions of easy-to-medium difficulty. I remember the cutoff feeling strict: I only advanced by getting strong results on the test cases, and that determined whether I got shortlisted.

A week or so later, I had a series of technical rounds. The main technical interview was about 40–45 minutes and started with a DSA challenge around repeatedly summing digits of integers in a string until it became a single

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