Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at HSBC with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 74% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 74 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HSBC overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HSBC as a Software Engineer according to 74 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 21%
IQ intelligence test: 14%
Background check: 10%
Personality test: 10%
Group panel interview: 7%
Phone interview: 7%
Presentation: 4%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HSBC (Pune) in Sep 2015
Interview
Campus Interview Process.
On-line Assessment (Mandatory on-line).
Group Discussion.
First Technical round.
Second technical round.
First HR interview round.
Final HR interview round.
The process started at 9 am and result were out at around 4 pm.
Overall good interview process.As a fresher there are very good chance of being selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Datastructure,questions regarding project.
They were looking for candidates for mobile, digital, cloud & big data projects.,but adaptability,over-all ability & logical reasoning are the area’s which we would be assessing these fresher.
Prepare your project very well.Java will be helpful.
Contract interview, only 1-2 actual hires, rest is all contractor. In office/onsite. Legacy system, low level, linux, old banking software, included a lot of networking questions, low level, linux questions and things of that nature.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
linux stuff, networking, C programming, a little C++
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at HSBC
Interview
The selection process consisted of four rounds: Coding, Behavioral, Technical, and HR. The interview mainly focused on basics of SQL, computer networks, writing code in any one programming language, and SQL queries. Aptitude questions were also included. There was no discussion about projects, and the process did not proceed to the HR round.
Simple interviews with basic to advance java concepts with spring boot and backend development like hashing component scan repository and more about backend development with respect to java 8 entity and object annotations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is component scan and how is it different from @component