RejectedSoftware Engineer at Visa
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 1-2 Weeks
- Rounds
- 4
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
- Other
How it went
No matter how strong your coding skills are, communication and interpersonal skills are equally important. Focus on impressing and engaging the HR by giving clear, structured, and thoughtful answers. Analyse each situational or behavioural question carefully, explain your reasoning confidently, and make sure your responses reflect problem-solving ability and professionalism
What they would tell you
No matter how strong your coding skills are, communication and interpersonal skills are equally important. Focus on impressing and engaging the HR by giving clear, structured, and thoughtful answers. Analyse each situational or behavioural question carefully, explain your reasoning confidently, and make sure your responses reflect problem-solving ability and professionalism
How to prepare
Focus on structured preparation by practicing the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) for behavioural and situational questions like stress handling, tight schedules, and problem-solving scenarios. Strengthen logical thinking by solving daily brain teasers, puzzles, and scenario-based problems, and make sure to clearly explain your reasoning. Be ready to discuss your projects in depth, including technologies used, challenges faced, and key decisions. Work on concise, confident self-introductions and polite, engaging responses to casual or HR questions. Finally, do mock interviews to simulate real scenarios, emphasizing behavioural, situational, and logical questions.
Their background
I Working as a QEA Programmer analyst at cognizant. I am proficient in Programming languages like c and Java. I am good at web stacks like HTML, CSS, JS, Node.js .
Round by round
- 1
Online Assessment60 min
In 1st round there were 4 coding questions, 2 were easy, one was medium and one was hard. The questions mainly focused on topics like stack-based problems, array manipulation, matrix and simulation logic.
Question 1 : Find all the words in string that start and end with same letter. ex : text = "Level dEmanD noNe" output : 2
Question 2 :** **Given a rectangular matrix .Your task is to return the number of nearly regular crosses within matrix. ex : matrix = [ [ 1, 2 ] [ 2, 1 ] ] output : 4
- 2
Technical Round 145 min
The second round was more like coding interview. Topics asked : self Intro projects coding question : Search a 2D Matrix
- 3
Technical Round 245 min
Asked question on software life cycle, DBMS , Questions on project. Additionally, there were 2 logical questions related aptitude.
- 4
HR round30 min
Interviewer asked me more situational and behavioural questions , such as how to deal with stress, how do I manage tight schedules and how I would approach tight schedules. He also asked a problem solving scenario involving 2 lifts, where i had to explain how to design the software to minimize passengers' wait time.
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.