Visa | Staff SE | Backend | R-1

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· Staff SE· 6.5y exp
February 8, 2026 · 18 reads

Summary

I applied for a Staff SE - Java, Spring Boot role at Visa. After clearing an Interview Experience, I had a pre-screen round and a coding round where I was asked the 'Hand of Straights' problem.

Full Experience

Hi Fam,

Applied for Staff SE - Java, Spring Boot role at Visa.

YOE: 6.5 Currently SSE@Walmart.


Interview Experience

Cleared.


Pre-Screen Round: (Taken by Director)

Basic technical questions on Kafka. Some theoretical questions on GenAI. Some questions on past experiences.


R-1 : Coding

Q1. https://leetcode.com/problems/hand-of-straights/

Gave a O(nlogn) approach. Interviewer however insisted on a O(n) approach.


#visa #staff #backend

Interview Questions (1)

1.

Hand of Straights

Data Structures & Algorithms·Medium

The problem asks to determine if it is possible to arrange a hand of cards into groups of size groupSize, such that each group contains groupSize consecutive cards. I was asked this problem during my coding round.

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