I applied through university. I interviewed at Mastercard (Pune) in Aug 2023
Interview
1st round- coding round - 2 easy coding questions were asked- 50 people were shortlisted. 2nd round-Technical round-40 people were shortlisted 3rd round- Technical round -21 were shortlisted 4th round -HR round-13 were selected
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Write any sorting algorithm 2) explain your project, what difficulties did you face while building your project 3) How to merge two JSON objects 4)One SQL query related to my project 5) How to find the frequency of elements in an arrays
Simple question asked in Java, nothing fancy for sde1, solid principles, few questions on overloading but ghosted laster by hr, tried contacting to hr multiple times but no response received
I was selected through Mastercard’s Code for Change Hackathon for an internship, where our team worked on real-world projects. After successfully completing a 2-month internship, I was offered a Pre-Placement Offer (PPO).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Based on my performance during the internship, I was offered a PPO – there was no separate interview round.
I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Mastercard (Pune) in Sept 2025
Interview
3 rounds ( 2 tech + 1 hr) Deeply Resume Based, you must know each and everything you've written in resume and about your project in detail - its flow, tech stack what and why, er diagram, how you plan to enhance it, etc. Easy to medium level dsa (stack, queues), DBMS and optimization. HR round was like a general hr round - intro apart from resume, family bg, about clg etc