Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Mastercard as 50% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Director and Business Development rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Director and Business Development roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Mastercard takes an average of 63 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Director had the quickest hiring process (on average 63 days), whereas Director roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 63 days).
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Mastercard in Sep 2017
Interview
I took the on campus interview this week. The interview itself was not difficult, but the interviewer was scary. From the very beginning when I was introducing myself, he seems disagreed with me. And when I was answering the interview questions, he was not smiling at all, playing his phone for some time and read emails for the other time. That made me nervous and failed to come up a solution for the final question. At last when I was asking questions, his answers were short and simple and it was embarrassing. And he ended the interview 10 minutes earlier.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some questions about load balancer algorithm design. Quite simple.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Mastercard (Washington, DC) in Sep 2016
Interview
You walk in and it's only one other person- your interviewer. The interviewer begins to casually ask questions about your resume, and they're so casual it becomes a conversation. After a few minutes they cut to the chase and give you a business problem to work through. For the next 30 minutes, you're talking through this problem, solving it in real time. After going as far as you can go, they wrap it up with a few final questions, and then open up the floor for your questions. Once you're done, you rinse and repeat once more. Then you go home and wait to find out if you get a "call back." If it went well, they fly you to DC (assuming you're not from there), and put you up in a hotel for a night to go through this same process 4-5 more times in one day. Then you're flown back and you go through the difficult process of waiting for the final result.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I'm a VP of a chain that offers coffee products to consumers that are looking for coffee-to-go and other, related products. I already have a lineup of different beverage sizes, but I'm thinking about adding another, mini option. What are some of the questions I should be asking myself? Why would I want to do this? Is this a smart business strategy, economically? Show me whether or not I should do it/the next questions I should answer before deciding.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Mastercard (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2016
Interview
For the internship, you have a first round interview that's 1 case. If you do well, you move onto a final round interview with four cases on site intermingled with lunch and opportunities to network with more of the office.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They do case based interviewing similar to normal consulting companies, but they are more mathematics heavy.