RejectedSDE1 at Visa
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 1-2 Weeks
- Rounds
- 1
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
- Company Website
How it went
Prioritize problems you are confident with first to secure points.
What they would tell you
Prioritize problems you are confident with first to secure points.
How to prepare
Rejected, Practice arrays, graphs, intervals, and string frequency problems thoroughly with time bound.
Their background
Attempted the Visa Online Assessment for SDE1
Round by round
- 1
OA60 min
The platform was CodeSignal, and the assessment was fully proctored, requiring a webcam, microphone, and screen sharing, duration was 60 minutes, and there were 4 coding questions, ranging from easy to medium-hard. Q1 Basic Array Problem
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This was a warm-up question
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I completed this comfortably, which helped me gain confidence Q2 Medium: This problem was similar to Falling Squares and required interval management and dynamic height calculation, spent a significant portion of my time (~40 minutes) here and was able to implement a working solution. Q3 It was similar to Maximum Number of Occurrences of a Substring.
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I came up with a partial solution Q4 Medium: This was exactly Number of Operations to Make Network Connected
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I could not solve this problem in the given time.
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What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.