Visa Inc. Software Engineer interview experience

I did a CodeSignal-style online assessment with multiple timed questions, and I remember it being focused heavily on DSA. After that, the process moved in waves—first the OA gate, and only then did anything human show up.

When I attempted it again in another cycle, it was with HackerRank and felt a lot more test-like. I had a proctored environment that was laggy, and on at least one problem I didn’t even get full test coverage because of how the run behaved. In another attempt, the HackerRank screen had a fixed window and no recruiter phone screen came first—it was essentially the full gate,