Visa Inc Interview Questions & Reviews in San Francisco, CA Area
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Updated May 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Technical Writer at Visa Inc
Posted Jun 30, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in San Mateo, CA (took a day)
I went through an agency to interview at Visa. I was one of 40 applicants. The manager decided to interview three. The manager was down to earth and easy to talk to. I was a close second to the candidate they choose, who had direct experience with the project team and the tool involved.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Operations at Visa Inc
Posted May 19, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
Quick follow-up on submission of resume by recruiter. Standard interview questions. Recruiter talked about how Visa's collaborative and consensus driven culture was shifting due to the need for faster go to market pressures and maintaining growth. Seems to be an environment that is evolving and some new territory for those who have been longtimers. Company performance strong through recession.
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Graduate Program at Visa Inc
Posted Jan 10, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in Foster City, CA (took a day)
I applied to VISA through on campus recruiting at my university. I was contacted through the system and was invited to arrange an interview with the company. I had two 30-minute interviews back-to-back with one interviewer each. One interviewer was in charge of VISA's corporate sponsorships and the other a marketing director. For the first interview, the interviewer asked questions about how it can improve its revenue. All subsequent questions came off of the first. For the second interview, the interviewer asked me basic questions about my resume and then mini case studies.
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Marketing at Visa Inc
Posted Oct 23, 2009 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2008 in Foster City, CA (took 3 weeks)
I found some parts of the Visa interview process to be terribly frustrating and unprofessional and in my opinion, no part of any interview process should be unprofessional, especially since I'm prone to believe that the interview process is rather indicative of what working life is like at a company......
A few things:
- I originally recruited through on-campus recruiting, applying for a Strategy position. When I was invited back for the final rounds, I was told that role no longer existed and so I could apply for finance, marketing or product development. I chose marketing.. as it was the closest available option to my skill set. I could've just turned down the interview but figured that they wouldn't bring me back if they didnt think I was capable of the other roles available.....I later found out that I was not hired because I didnt have a strong enough marketing background and that they thought my skill set was more suited for a strategy role......
- The interviews lasted nearly all day from around 9a to 3:30p, including an interview during lunch. I had to awkwardly try to eat my sandwich while being interviewed. I found it annoying but maybe they were just preparing us for what working at Visa would be like?
-Visa HR forgot (twice) to call me to let me know that I didnt get a job. They originally told us that we'd hear back within 2-3 weeks. When 3 weeks passed and I hadn't heard back, I emailed the recruiter to touch base who responded via email that the other HR person had "forgotten" to call me. He then wanted to schedule a time to talk which I found rather painful since it was pretty obvious that I hadn't gotten the job at that point. I scheduled a call with him and then he forgot to call AGAIN. He called a few hours later and left a message saying he got caught up doing something else but didnt bother giving me the news over vmail (which is fair....but he basically already did when he told me I was "forgotten" about so I found this to be rather annoying. We then proceeded to play phone tag a few times until it got to the point where I just told him to update me over email or voice mail b/c I was tired of playing phone tag. Given it is HR's job to interact with candidates, I found it ridiculous that this process dragged on for over a month and a half, and that they were so unprofessional in the process.
Hopefully this was a freak occurence and not Visa's standard HR process!
As for interview tips/questions:
I was asked to describe my brand - i.e. how would I market myself?
I had a couple case studies (involving electronic payments as to be expected)
the rest were mainly behavioral, asking about past experience, tell me a time when....., and the expected - why do you want to work at Visa, why this role, etc.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Technical Project Management at Visa Inc
Posted Jun 4, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2008 in Foster City, CA (took a day)
Had 1 single interview spanning about 2.5 hours - 2 SMEs and 1 manager - in sequence.
Not very well planned though - the SMEs had not seen my resume before hand and the manager was late.
Position described in most general terms.
Expect a VERY thorough background check.
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None. Manager went on vacation and the offer process took 3 weeks longer than expected.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Business Leader at Visa Inc
Posted May 25, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2009 in Foster City, CA (took 4 weeks)
Phone interview with HR, then met three senior business leaders 1on1
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Business leader at Visa Inc
Posted May 7, 2009
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in Foster City, CA (took 1 week)
HR screening; 1:1
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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VP, Finance Business Consultant at Visa Inc
Posted Mar 19, 2009 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2007 in Foster City, CA (took 3 weeks)
Visa has a slow decision making process. It took forever to get to the first interview, get feedback, and proceed to the second. In the meantime, I didn't know where I stood, as getting any feedback from HR was difficult. I didn't think HR was really in the loop as to what the Finance dept was thinking regarding my candidacy. The people I meet with, Denise Sterling and her direct reports, were personable. The interviews with her reports (3-4) generally asked me questions off my resume, such as "have you experienced?" or "how do you approach this?". The oddest interview was with Denise herself; she spoke most of the time and didn't ask me anything I can remember now. I kept wondering what she thought of me, as I didn't know if she got anything out of the conversation; my guess is that she left it to her reports to decide. My advice to others interviewing with FInance: unless you come from the payment industry, understand how your skills translate to Visa. The most critical skills are those of managing up, gaining buy-in, and managing internal clients.
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Short, sweet and direct. I actually got a nice bump up in salary, and when we headed towards IPO, participated in the offering, got options etc. The salary they configure is a range based on your title. You need to get the right title at Visa, not just for salary, but additional benefits. You also need the right title to get anything done as well. The organization is very title focused.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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