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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Austin, Texas

March 1, 2016

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had no CS experience, only big data mining experience, and they interviewed me because they wanted to add a data analyst to their team. The interview was not a behavioral interview at all. They only asked for me to explain previous projects, and they gave me a case to solve.

Questions

Explain the difference between R and SAS (statistical software).

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 19 interview experiences for the Visa Software Engineer role in Austin, Texas.

Success Rate

21%

Pass Rate

Visa's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Austin, Texas is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive42%

Neutral37%

Negative21%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Visa's Software Engineer interview process in Austin, Texas.

Visa Interview Questions

3Sum

Medium

Find all unique triplets in an array that sum to zero. You'll need to consider the potential for duplicate numbers and avoid duplicate triplets in your solution.

ArraysTwo Pointers

Balanced Binary Tree

Easy

Determine if a binary tree is height-balanced. A height-balanced tree is defined as one where the difference in height between the left and right subtrees of every node is no more than 1.

TreesRecursion

Length of Longest V-Shaped Diagonal Segment

Hard

Find the length of the longest diagonal segment in a matrix that forms a V-shape. A V-shape is defined by monotonically decreasing values followed by monotonically increasing values along the diagonal.

Dynamic ProgrammingArrays