Mastercard Software Engineer interview experience

I got pulled in through campus, and the coding round came first. It was described as eliminatory, so once I finished, I had a short wait and then completed the rest of the rounds in a single day a couple of days later.

Across the loop, I went through two technical rounds plus a managerial round and a bar-raiser round. The technical portion revolved around coding that felt LeetCode-style, and the bar-raiser experience pushed beyond just getting to a working answer—it tested how I thought about problems and explained them.

The pacing and structure made it clear they were trying to separate