Mastercard Interview Experience for Internship

Technical Interview 1 [45 mins]

• I was given a coding exercise that required me to optimize a given algorithm for a real-world scenario.
• The interviewer wasn’t just evaluating my coding skills; they were genuinely interested in understanding my thought process. This made the interview feel more like a shared exploration than a one-sided assessment.
• Practical applications of data structures and why are they used in that particular application (property of data structure that makes it suitable to be used in given real-world example
• Questions about my project, and problems I faced. The interviewer asked me what I would do when I encountered a particular exception while coding

Technical Interview 2 [50 mins]

• What do you know about cloud computing?
• Why do we need cloud platforms? Give examples of popular cloud platforms.
• Basic DBMS questions: draw an ER diagram for a given scenario, and give examples of RDBMS used by you
• How did you integrate your database with your project?
• What is JDBC?
• Do you have an idea about Kubernetes?
• Features of ChatGPT

HR Interview [25 mins]

• Tell me about your background.
• How would you prove that adaptability is one of your string suites? (I had mentioned “adaptability” on my resume)
• Suppose you are a team leader for some project, what will you do to ensure that the team stays motivated?
• What problems did you face as a team leader in the college projects you have done so far?
• What is more important to you: money or personal growth?
• In your eyes, what does a successful internship look like?

Thank you.