I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2021
Interview
Online interview. Video style portion gives written questions, and you are given a couple of minutes to think before recording a video response answer. There are also written behavioural style questions which are multiple choice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would you do if you had to choose between going forward with a project knowing all of the information, or waiting and risking the project being late?
Business interview for two turns and one technical assessment. After shortlisted the CV, can go ahead with interviewer, they are of very hospitality. Will be done by department manager and mentors.
I applied online. I interviewed at HSBC (London, England) in Jul 2023
Interview
The internship was offered by HSBC in collaboration with Alan Turing Institute (you had to be a PhD student to apply). They did not announce me in advance that I will have a technical interview, and the interview ran over time. At some point both of the guys were asking me questions at the same time which made it difficult for me to focus. The first part was the presentation of my CV and other general questions, second one was technical with a few hands on Python exercises, and the third one was business related questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Describe a data science project you have worked on in the past. - Pre-processing techniques for natural language processing. - What do you know about Random Forest? - Find the even numbers from a Python list. - I has given a sting with a phrase and I had to find the words with uneven number of letters. - What is overfitting and how you treat it? - How do you combine data from two or more database tables based related columns (types of joins). -How do you handle missing data? - Explain the steps you take in a data science project - Why HSBC? - Present your CV - You have a different background, why should we hire you?
Data Science Intern applicants have rated the interview process at HSBC with 1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at HSBC as a Data Science Intern according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Drug test: 25%
Presentation: 25%
Background check: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
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