Interview Experience with
HSBC
Exp-Fresher on Campus
Total Rounds: 4
Role - Trainee Software Engineer
Round 1.1 -
AON platform
Aptitude + Technical (70 Questions - 75 Mins, English Usage - 20 Qtns, Analytical Reasoning - 20 Qtns, Technical - 30 Qtns)
Round 1.2-
AON platform
Coding (2 Questions - 30 Mins) ( Only candidates clearing paper 1 (Apti+Technical), will give paper 2)
coding questions were easy
Round 2
Values Assessment Test
can read about it here
https://www.jobtestprep.co.uk/hsbc-online-tests
It was a elimination round
more than 1/3rd students were not able to clear this round
Round 3
Technical Round
Interviewer asked me to introduce
Then asked me to explain my first project which was developed using Spring Fameowork, hibernate, spring mvc and Spring boot. grinded about 10 mins on that project asked me to draw different diagrams of the same.
I was thorough with that and this is where I established impression.
Then we had short discussion over second project which was NLP based project.
then he asked me very easy CS fundamentals (DSA, OOPS and DBMS) question and my experience.
it was very easy pisy cause I had already made impression through my first project, which already had covered DBMS,OOPS, Java. As a DSA experience I mentioned my Leetcode/GFG rankings and rating.
It was all around my resume.(prepare your resume thoroughly)
DBMS- Simple DDL queries, NoSQL vs SQL and my experience with them
then we had short discussion over my extracurriculars.
Round 4
HR round
- Introduce yourself
- where do you see yourself in next 3 years
- what are 3 things you would like to change in yourself
- Why HSBC
- explain me about your projects
- what location would you prefer Banglore/Pune/Hyderabad
- what technological stack would you like to work upon
and few other HR questions
Be Calm and Confident
and be YOURSELF
Final Verdict-I was Selected
Overall it was easy interview but each round was elimination round.
for technical interview Be thorough with your resume and you are done