Visa Inc. Senior Software Developer interview questions

Recruiter reached out to me after applying online on their website. Had a phone screen and then had an online assessment. Was moved on to the technical interviews. Technical interview round consisted of 4 rounds although in one of the rounds, the interviewer was an entry level software developer out of college who was only a few months into the job at Visa - this to me, was ridiculous! This was followed by an interview with a director and was offered the position. They have a ridiculous compensation philosophy when it comes to external experienced hires vs. college new grad hires - college hires get a joining bonus, stock compensation, etc but external experienced hires don't get anything as a part of the compensation package outside of the base and an annual bonus. For such a big company, negotiation didn't yield even a single cent even with valid reasons and after them gathering all the documentation they wanted to substantiate that reason. Overall, a barely professional process with red flags all along the process.

There was a Hackerrank coding test with 3 easy and one mid-level difficulty question. The second round was person-to-person, which had one more coding question and a few theoretical questions. The interviewer was a bit junior, which explains the googled-up-10-minutes-before type of questions. The theoretical questions were also not geared towards assessing the candidate, at least not at a senior level. That stuff is good for college freshers. But then they sent a junior person to run the interview. He asked a couple of stupid Java questions - What's the difference between final, finally & finalize keyword and why we use Wrapper class in Java and mind you, this is for a "Senior" position. Then came a couple of questions on the Spring framework, some theoretical questions on the pattern the framework uses in part of its own implementation. Was asked a generic googled-up-10-minutes-before-interview question on Kafka (I mentioned in my CV). Now I don't quite know what the question meant, and I believe neither did the interviewer since when I asked if I answered the question, he didn't answer me properly, which he did for the algorithm question. Which he had a grasp of. I was asked to turn the video on, which he didn't. I found that a bit rude. But my experience with Indian interviewers has so far been this way, no reason to hold him to a higher standard than average. Overall, pretty bad interview experience. I have interviewed at places before where I didn't get the job yet would have come out the other end feeling it was a good experience. This one makes you a bit concerned about what kind of people handle your credit card.