Smooth with many rounds to see your compatibility with the team. It simulates your everyday way of working by meeting most of the future members of your team. They also ask real life scenario questions to see how you would approach these situations.
The interview panel was easy to interact with, focusing on situation based scenarios and a few technical questions that tested practical understanding rather than deep theoretical knowledge and real-world application.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Mastercard (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Apr 2025
Interview
Asked DSA questions and then some loss functions. How they were derived. Asked about gradient descent. Also gave situations and asked how would you approach this problem what will you use some shortcomings etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about log loss function and why use log.
Data Scientist I applicants have rated the interview process at Mastercard with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist I roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Mastercard overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Mastercard as a Data Scientist I according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 100%
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