Mastercard Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
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Was asked a medium and a hard leetcode question.
Answered it, then was asked to reduce the time complexity. Then there was an HR round to assess my compatibility with the team.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Mastercard (Pune) in Sep 2023
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First they took an oa on haccerrank platform, 2 coding questions, then 30 studenta were shortlisted then they took 2 tech rounds and 1 hr, shortlisting after each round. 12 students were selected.
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Complete oop, dsa in depth and security during payments
1 coding round. 2 technical rounds and 1 HR round. All rounds except the coding round were conducted in person. Both technical rounds were conducted with a break of 2 hrs. HR was a bit later in the day. All interviews took place on the same day.
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1. Write code for generating the nth Fibonacci number recursive and non-recursive. 2. Many OOP questions: Abstract class, overriding functions, virtual functions, etc. 3. A few questions on SQL. 4. HR round was mainly situational questions.