Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Visa Inc. with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 49% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 203 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Visa Inc. overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Visa Inc. as a Software Engineer according to 203 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 28%
Phone interview: 25%
Skills test: 19%
Presentation: 8%
Background check: 6%
Group panel interview: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Drug test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 1%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Visa Inc. (UCLA, CA) in Oct 2014
Interview
Talked to the recruiter at a career fair and got the interview on the spot. When I went for the interview it was pretty informal and a one on one interview. It was pretty easy and I thought I answered the questions well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How can you show that a binary search tree is is the same if you reflect it across its root
I applied for a role name Graduate software engineer, but I got the next step assessment for role Software engineer. However I completed the test and waiting for response, it's been a month and I didn't get any response
Had two technical interviews, back to back. Medium leet code problems. Not that hard. After received an email that they did not proceed with me, but had other manager internally interested in my profile
I interviewed at Visa Inc. (Highlands Ranch, CO) in Jun 2026
Interview
When I applied I received an invitation to take a HackerRank assessment which consisted of 3 medium difficulty DSA questions. The next step after passing that was a phone screen with the recruiter. Then I had 2 technical rounds consisting of testing my computer science fundamentals and C++ knowledge. My last round was a behavioral interview.