Hey folks, I interviewed with Visa for SSE few weeks back and wanted to share my experience. I had read a lot of negative experiences with Visa interviewers before but I won't comment on mine and rather let you be the judge.

• I applied throught LinkedIn and got the CodeSignal link with four questions. Difficuly was easy for all four questions and there was enough time to finish. They were super strict with proctoring though.
  Got the feedback within 2 days that they will be scheduling virtual interviews.

• There were two technical rounds with focus area being generic for both and included everything from problem solving, OOPS, Design, Spring, AI tools, Microservices etc which honestly I found bit confusing.

• First round was scheduled and I took WFH to attempt that (limited WFH in a week) but few hours before interview I was told that it has been rescheduled since interviewer was not available. Although inconvenient, it was understandable.

• The round was rescheduled and there was a different interviewer assigned this time. He was professional and well spoken. The questions were mostly around internal implementations of Java, Spring and my past projects. It went well and I was expecting next round.

• I got a callback within 1-2 days that I had cleared the previous round and they will schedule the next round. I was given about a week in between. On a sidenote, the interviewer this time was the one that had cancelled the first time due to unavailability.

• Interview day came I was well prepared and joined on time. Five minutes passed and no one joined then ten minutes went away stil no one. I called the recruiter and she was very helpful, apologised and immediately informed me to wait few more minutes since the engineer was busy with some meeting.
• Finally after waiting for about 20 minutes the person joined. He did not turn on his camera and seemed in hurry, probably juggling between calls. He started with some general questions and asked more followup questions based on my answers. It seemed like he was not prepared for the interview and was asking questions on the fly.
• He asked a lot of text book theortical questions and most of them I answered in detail. Since it started to feel like the discussion was very surface level I started connecting the answers with my work experience as well. (Otherwise it was getting weird and seemed like the viva in school where you are asked about book definitions)
• Out of all the questions he asked there were one or two which I did not know and upfront told him that I have not used it so not really sure. By this time 40 minutes had passed and he had to hop on to some other call. He asked if it was my first round. (probably to decide whether to extend the call since if it was my second round it would have been the last technical round as well so likely wanted to cover some more topics).
• I told him its not then he asked one more question in hurry and I could hear some background voices so I knew he had already joined some other meeting in parallel. I answered the question in the one or two minutes he was able to spare and then the interview ended.

• I was happy since I answered almost all the questions he asked and based on the conversation I was optimistic that I did well. But after two days I recieved a generic rejection mail without any proper reason of rejection.
• Shoutout to the recruiters though, they were super helpful throught the process! I think they should do some training and set some basic standards for the actual interviews. Since a lot of time and energy goes into appearing for these along with the office work for all working professionals.

Other -
PhonePe (3-5 Yrs)
https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7539137/phonepe-backend-software-engineer-3-5-ye-n5mi/

OnePay SDE 2
https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7543963/onepay-sde-2-backend-interview-experienc-7iej/