Tips for Interviewing at Mastercard

Mastercard Australia

The two most important interview tips are to relax and have fun. Come to your interview with the mindset that you are engaging in a fascinating problem-solving exercise – one that will require all the creativity you can muster – and you will put your best foot forward.

At Mastercard, we use different types of interviews depending on the role you are interviewing for. All interviews include a behavioral component in addition to assessing your problem-solving skills. If you are unsure which type of interview to expect, please reach out to your recruiter who will be able to guide you.

Technical interview

A technical interview is an opportunity for us to confirm and test the more core technical skills of an engineer. While many companies have similar interviews, we offer questions that tend to be outside the standard classroom algorithms and instead ask questions that allow candidates to showcase their thought process.

Product Management interview

A product design interview evaluates your ability to take a general prompt for a potential product or critique of an existing product. The purpose of this exercise is for the interviewer to understand your ability to prioritise the user's need, and then propose a solution based on this.

Product Management interview guide

Consulting interview

A case interview is an interactive problem-solving exercise where your interviewer will present a business problem and you will be asked to demonstrate your analytical thinking to come up with a solution. Based on actual client engagements, case interviews provide an opportunity for us to see how you approach business problems and give you an opportunity to understand our client work.

Find more information and interview tips from our employees here.