I applied for the Mastercard Data and Services division for a software engineering position. Very poor communication from HR. First email was received two months after applying. Then, feedback after the first interview was not given for another two weeks. For the second interview, I asked for more details about the format of the interview, and was greeted with silence.

Finally, after the second interview was completed they decided to ghost me. It has been more than a week and I have not heard anything from them. During this whole process, I have not been able to talk to any actual HR person. My emails and calls were ignored, and I only received automated responses that contained meeting invites.

If this is any indication of how Mastercard treats their talent, it is not a good place to work. I have decided to go with another offer in the fintech space due to this experience with Mastercard's HR.

The process involved standard behavioral questions related to software engineering and scrum, followed by a case study problem that required coding.