Mastercard Software Engineer interview experience

I was in contact with a recruiter, but it was hard to find anything recent that described how the interviews worked, so I didn’t have a clear mental model of what each step would actually look like.

One message made it sound like the early stage would be a phone screen and that system design might come up even then. Another call I had scheduled was framed as a practical assessment where they’d use a coding platform and a drawing tool, which at least suggested the format would be more interactive than a purely verbal discussion.

Overall, the most consistent feeling was uncertainty. I wasn’t