Mastercard Software Engineer interview: eliminatory coding and same day later rounds

I entered through a college placement style process. The first call was for a coding round, and that round was explicitly eliminatory. After I completed it, I finished the remaining rounds a couple of days later, all on the same day. The sequence began with the coding interview and continued with manager level and bar raiser style evaluation. Those later rounds seemed to be about more than coding…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.