I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Visa Inc. (Bengaluru) in Apr 2021
Interview
There was a Hackerrank coding test with 3 easy and one mid-level difficulty question.
The second round was person-to-person, which had one more coding question and a few theoretical questions.
The interviewer was a bit junior, which explains the googled-up-10-minutes-before type of questions. The theoretical questions were also not geared towards assessing the candidate, at least not at a senior level. That stuff is good for college freshers. But then they sent a junior person to run the interview.
He asked a couple of stupid Java questions - What's the difference between final, finally & finalize keyword and why we use Wrapper class in Java and mind you, this is for a "Senior" position.
Then came a couple of questions on the Spring framework, some theoretical questions on the pattern the framework uses in part of its own implementation.
Was asked a generic googled-up-10-minutes-before-interview question on Kafka (I mentioned in my CV). Now I don't quite know what the question meant, and I believe neither did the interviewer since when I asked if I answered the question, he didn't answer me properly, which he did for the algorithm question. Which he had a grasp of.
I was asked to turn the video on, which he didn't. I found that a bit rude. But my experience with Indian interviewers has so far been this way, no reason to hold him to a higher standard than average.
Overall, pretty bad interview experience. I have interviewed at places before where I didn't get the job yet would have come out the other end feeling it was a good experience. This one makes you a bit concerned about what kind of people handle your credit card.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the difference between final, finally & finalize keyword
One coding, Recruiter round and a loop round(3 interviews). I got the feedback on the very next day of my loop round and later they have done a reference check with my current manager and colleagues and then released a formal offer letter
Online assessment round is first round with data structure and algorithms with array sorting algorithms on hacker rank which was moved recently. There were two questions and they were very very difficult
I applied online. I interviewed at Visa Inc. (London, England) in Mar 2026
Interview
I went through the process twice for two separate applications, about 3–4 months apart. The steps were mainly LeetCode, system design, and cultural fit interviews. If you’re solid on most medium-level LeetCode problems, you should be fine.
The process itself isn’t particularly difficult, but I think it’s mostly a numbers game since there are a lot of candidates competing.
The negative part was the communication from HR: constant ghosting and timelines that were never respected. I only found out I had been rejected after my second follow-up asking for feedback, more than a month after the last interview, and only once I started sounding frustrated in my messages.