Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Mastercard with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Mastercard overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Mastercard as a Data Scientist according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 100%
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The interview panel was easy to interact with, focusing on situation based scenarios and a few technical questions that tested practical understanding rather than deep theoretical knowledge and real-world application.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Mastercard (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Apr 2025
Interview
Asked DSA questions and then some loss functions. How they were derived. Asked about gradient descent. Also gave situations and asked how would you approach this problem what will you use some shortcomings etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about log loss function and why use log.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Mastercard (New Delhi) in Sep 2024
Interview
Pretty easy, they asked about my hobbies and basic ML.
Asked about my previous internship and my projects as well.
For people preparing for the interview, just have a good basic background in the ML Space, and have good projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is the change in Precision and Recall if the threshold and p value changes.