I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Mastercard (Ballston, VA) in Sept 2017
Interview
- first round on campus interview: a case study on pet hotel; knowing basic SQL knowledge would be helpful
- second round phone interview: a case study on pricing, mostly just testing your logic and the ability to do maths
- final round in office:
two interviews with case and behavior (cases are more quantitative than management consulting but really just basic maths and some logical thinking. they don't care about you using those framework the management consulting companies are big on which is good because you don't need to do a lot of practice beforehand or provide really polished answer. They care more about your raw intelligence and intuition)
one interview with database case (more advanced database and SQL knowledge)
another hands-on project where you will be asked to generate analysis from a database using language of your choice (e.g. python, R, SQL, Excel, etc) and there will be a 1:1 Q&A session/interview right after that for you to walk through your progress and thoughts
Overall, extremely fun experience. Before final round, they will put you in a nice hotel and invite you to a nice networking/dinner. On the interview day, people in your group will take you out for lunch. Their culture including the new office is definitely of the silicon-valley style.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about some website database. It might seem to be easy at first, but the interviewer will really dig into it.
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Mastercard (College Station, TX) in Oct 2018
Interview
Talked to the company at Career Fair and later applied online. Got a call for Campus Interview. Didn't make it to the second round which was supposed to happen at their headquarters.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One Case-Study question which was related to designing a database. They wanted to know the overall thinking process
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Mastercard (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2018
Interview
3 rounds total. First round was on campus, covered past projects/internships, some basic SQL questions, and a market sizing question. Second round was in the SF office, went over past internship experience and a database design case with some related SQL questions. Final round was in the Arlington office. It consisted of four 45 minute interviews. I had one creative data one, two business cases, and one database design case. Overall a really great experience, everyone was very friendly and helpful!
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design a database for your favorite messaging app.
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Mastercard in Oct 2017
Interview
I applied through my college and got offered an on campus interview. The interview was only 30 minutes and consisted of about 1 behavioral question, two database questions, and a market-sizing question. The interviewer was very nice and helpful during the case.
