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Mastercard Software Engineer Interview Questions

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  • Mastercard logoAsked at Mastercard 
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    Video answer for 'What is the project you are most proud of?'
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    "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"

    Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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    Software Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
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    "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."

    Syed I. - "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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    "Hallucinations are evaluated by measuring how often generated outputs contain information that is not supported by trusted sources. what hallucination means in context: Intrinsic hallucination: contradicts provided context Extrinsic hallucination: introduces unsupported facts Fabrication: confidently incorrect answers"

    Hardik saurabh G. - "Hallucinations are evaluated by measuring how often generated outputs contain information that is not supported by trusted sources. what hallucination means in context: Intrinsic hallucination: contradicts provided context Extrinsic hallucination: introduces unsupported facts Fabrication: confidently incorrect answers"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
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    "I told a story about how our team was focussed on moving a key metric i.e. NPS and to do that we build 3 top requested user feature. Post release the detractors % didn't move even though the detractors request for features shipped went down. Then I connect with users and did some analysis post which we realised that we need to pivot our focus from shipping features to enabling complete workflows for our users i.e. shipping all those feature which are used together in a feature as then only users"

    Aditya S. - "I told a story about how our team was focussed on moving a key metric i.e. NPS and to do that we build 3 top requested user feature. Post release the detractors % didn't move even though the detractors request for features shipped went down. Then I connect with users and did some analysis post which we realised that we need to pivot our focus from shipping features to enabling complete workflows for our users i.e. shipping all those feature which are used together in a feature as then only users"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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  • Mastercard logoAsked at Mastercard 
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    "I'm currently a School Bus Monitor at First Student, I make sure that the students on the bus are seated down, making sure they are safe during the bus ride. Sometimes depending on the day they may need me to help do a wheelchair so I sometimes help the driver out with making sure the wheelchair is safely secure, hooking up the 4 hooks on the wheelchair, putting the lap belt on the student and also making sure the student feels comfortable during the bus ride. After we finished dropping off our"

    Amparo L. - "I'm currently a School Bus Monitor at First Student, I make sure that the students on the bus are seated down, making sure they are safe during the bus ride. Sometimes depending on the day they may need me to help do a wheelchair so I sometimes help the driver out with making sure the wheelchair is safely secure, hooking up the 4 hooks on the wheelchair, putting the lap belt on the student and also making sure the student feels comfortable during the bus ride. After we finished dropping off our"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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    "A load balancer accepts requests from clients (e.g. web browsers on the Internet) and backend services (e.g. a web server). Load balancers are useful for replicating backend services onto multiple machines to meet increased demand. The design of a load balancer should address the following questions: What protocols should be supported? IP allows computers to communicate using packets, similarly to how people send letters. IP packets are addressed using an IP address and port number. "

    Anonymous Hyena - "A load balancer accepts requests from clients (e.g. web browsers on the Internet) and backend services (e.g. a web server). Load balancers are useful for replicating backend services onto multiple machines to meet increased demand. The design of a load balancer should address the following questions: What protocols should be supported? IP allows computers to communicate using packets, similarly to how people send letters. IP packets are addressed using an IP address and port number. "See full answer

    Software Engineer
    System Design
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    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
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    Software Engineer
    System Design
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  • Mastercard logoAsked at Mastercard 
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    "min-num = arr[0] max-num = arr[0] for (i=1; i max-num) { max-num = arr[i]; } } System.out.println("Minimum = " + min-num); System.out.println("Maximum = " + max-num);"

    Kamlesh S. - "min-num = arr[0] max-num = arr[0] for (i=1; i max-num) { max-num = arr[i]; } } System.out.println("Minimum = " + min-num); System.out.println("Maximum = " + max-num);"See full answer

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    Technical
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