Visa Inc. Software Engineer interview experience

The structure surprised me a little: it wasn’t just coding back-to-back. I had two coding rounds, then a system design round even though it was for a new grad-style role.

The coding questions were medium LeetCode-style problems, and the system design discussion was its own separate segment rather than something loosely wrapped around the technical rounds. Across the sessions, the interviews felt deliberate and paced, with enough structure that I wasn’t guessing what each interviewer expected from me.

In terms of outcome, I didn’t get an offer. But the experience still felt “real” in the