FORESIGHT(2018): Summer Internship VISA Inc. | Shashwat Mishra

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Listen Share My name is Shashwat Mishra and I did my internship at VISA Inc. during my summers of 2018. VISA Inc. is a company specialized in providing a technological platform for digital payments and transactions. With very few competitors in the market and ever-expanding business opportunities, VISA is a company which you can trust to lead the payments, cybersecurity and AI domains selection procedure. The selection procedure for the internship consists of 2 rounds: i) Coding round: This round tests your knowledge on programming based questions on Algorithms and Data Structures. The topics generally include arrays, lists, trees, dynamic programming and backtracking. ii) Telephonic Interview: Those qualified in the coding round get the opportunity to sit in the telephonic interview. The questions are based on projects and skills mentioned in your CV. Be clear on things that you know and that you don’t. A firm grip on Algorithms and Data Structures always helps as the questions usually pop up from these subjects. You can get pretty good resources online for practising programming Algorithms and Data Structures. Few good links to follow are interviewbit.com, geeksforgeeks. Textbook references from Cormen are also good. Take time to prepare for them. Do prepare for a telephonic interview. A mock practice will work wonders if you are giving it for the first time. I was the part of the Data Quality team of VISA which ensures that the data within our systems is perfect and up-to-date without any errors. As a part of my internship, I had to design an algorithm which can automatically provide an in-depth analysis of reasons for some problem/alert being generated by the systems. It was quite an interesting project and luckily it went for IP filing also, thanks to my teammates. In a single word “Awesome”. It could be a biased opinion based on teams but overall the people are nice and hardworking. Timings are fixed from 9 am -5 pm, so you get sufficient time for yourself also. Special events keep on happening which provide extra-curricular opportunities for employees to be a part of. And for interns I would like to add one thing, you are surely going to enjoy the VISA’s “Global Intern Summit at San Francisco”. People interested in learning the technologies being implemented in Payments’ processing domain should apply for this. Anyone looking for a balanced work-life balance is welcome. With extensive hiring plans in the next two years, if you produce good results, pre-placement offers are sure to come to you. Be crisp and clear on your fundamentals, revise and practice before you go. And don’t be bothered with the stipend, it’s sufficient with the other facilities they provide you. And to say, at last, a very great and wonderful summer lies ahead of you. Best of luck to all sitting for their internships and placements!! Baaki sab “peace” hai☺