Mastercard·Software Engineer

Mastercard Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Bangalore, IndiaCandidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied to a SWE role that matched my background, and after months I got a surprise message from an Apple recruiter.

The first technical step was with a team manager and a senior developer, and it was very experience-driven: I walked through projects I’d worked on, the teams I’d been part of, and a specific interesting problem I faced and how I solved it. They followed up quite a bit, digging into details of my decisions.

Once they were satisfied with my background, I moved to a CoderPad round that checked coding. The question was like a medium LeetCode-style problem (an LRU cache came up as an example), but the follow-ups pushed into concurrency. They cared a lot about concurrency pitfalls, so I had to

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