Visa

Global digital payments and financial network
Last updated:
January 2, 2026
Company details
HQ
San Francisco, CA
HEADCOUNT
10000+
ORG TYPE
Corporate
SECTOR
Finance
About the company
Visa is a global payments technology company that runs the network that helps move money between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities. The company provides services like authorization, clearing, and settlement that sit behind many card and digital payment experiences. Visa operates across 200+ countries and territories and works with partners ranging from banks to fintechs and large merchants. The company’s products also extend into areas like risk, fraud, data-driven services, and advisory work.
Locations and presence
Visa has major hubs in the United States (including Foster City, San Francisco, Austin, and Atlanta) alongside offices across many global regions. The company publicly positions most roles as hybrid, with examples in job postings noting set in-office days and a policy that allows short periods working from another location for eligible hybrid roles.
Palpable Score
79.1
/ 100
Visa has a broad and repeatable early-career funnel, including a global internship program and multiple structured rotational programs with clear eligibility windows. The strongest evidence sits in learning support and early-career program design, while the weaker area is end-to-end hiring transparency because public details on interview stages and feedback norms are limited.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

17.7
/ 20
  • The company runs a global internship program across multiple regions with defined application windows and full-time summer placements.
  • Visa publishes several early-career rotational pathways (including APM, VLA, CSDP, FLDP, and PTDP) aimed at recent graduates and early-tenure hires.
  • The company offers additional structured entry points such as a payments cybersecurity learning program that includes an accelerated interview path into early-career apprenticeships.
  • Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

    Score

    14.0
    / 20
  • The company’s program pages give candidates concrete timing signals, such as fall application windows and late-summer start dates for rotations like APM, CSDP, and VLA.
  • Visa’s job postings and program pages include standard candidate protections and clarity points (EEO language, work authorization notes in some roles, and a channel to request recruitment support for disability-related needs).
  • The company does not consistently publish a step-by-step interview process (stages, assessment types, typical timelines, and feedback expectations) in a single, central early-career hiring guide, which limits transparency for first-time applicants.
  • Pillar 3: Learning and support

    Score

    17.0
    / 20
  • The company describes a structured learning ecosystem that includes Visa University, a digital learning hub, and global learning events aimed at continuous development.
  • Visa’s rotational programs explicitly include mentorship, specialized training, and cross-functional exposure, with rotations laid out over multi-year schedules (for example, APM’s six-month rotations and PTDP’s three eight-month rotations).
  • The company’s internship and early-career postings describe practical support mechanisms such as skills and development sessions, buddy or mentor access, and learning paths alongside real project work.
  • Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

    Score

    14.7
    / 20
  • The company states that compensation packages are market-competitive and can include salary, bonus, equity, health coverage, and retirement offerings depending on region.
  • Visa includes pay ranges on many United States job postings, alongside a standardized benefits list (medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and wellness).
  • The company does not consistently publish pay ranges for internship and graduate roles across regions on the main early-careers pages, so early-career pay clarity varies heavily by location and posting.
  • Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

    Score

    15.7
    / 20
  • The company ties some programs directly to progression, such as CSDP stating that associates are promoted within Client Services upon completion.
  • Visa frames internships as a pipeline to return offers and has publicly discussed a conversion-oriented design for the internship program, including an explicit conversion target in external early-career coverage.
  • The company has strong early-career sentiment signals in intern-focused employee review summaries, but Visa does not publish consistent public data on retention rates or time-to-promotion for early-career cohorts across regions.
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