I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HSBC in Sep 2016
Interview
Applied through campus recruitment. One day process.
There were four rounds:
1. Aptitude + Technical Online test
2. Coding
3. Technical Interview
4. HR Interview
Aptitude round had 5 sections: passage (selecting the right words for fill in the blanks), Arithmetic Aptitude, Attention to Detail, C & Data Structures, Algorithms, Java
passage was tricky, Arithmetic Aptitude and Attention to Detail were easily doable, C & Data Structures, Algorithms, Java were doable if you have practiced well.
I was exempted from coding interview because I was among the top 6 in the first round. But I heard that the coding round was fairly easy.
So 6 from the first round and and 6 from second round were shortlisted. For technical and HR.
After clearing the technical interview, I was selected for HR along with one more guy. We both were given offers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical (I am from non-CS background so I was asked different variety of questions):
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Tell me about the projects you did.
3. Tell me about how you would approach a problem if you are working alone on a weekend and no one is there to help you.
4. Tell me the difference between Java and C.
5. What is Data Scrapping?
6. What is Data Analytics?
7. What is difference between them?
8. Explain Hadoop and MapReduce in detail.
9. What is Cloud Computing?
10. Difference between IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
11. What is Big Data? How is it different from traditional data. Give example.
12. How big data can be used in banking sector?
13. What is machine learning? Give example.
14. Do you know about DBMS? Write five SQL commands.
15. Do you know about OS? What is paging? Write five Linux commands.
16. What is the difference between Java and C?
17. Explain Polymorphism.
18. Any questions for us?
HR (Easier and relaxed):
1. You are from a non-CS background then why IT field?
2. Why didn't you change branch in first year?
3. How many companies you sat for interview till now? Why not selected yet?
4. Why leave a metro city and come to a smaller city for college?
5. Why is the number of girls is less in engineering colleges?
6. What do you do on your weekdays and weekends?
7. How do you chill on your weekends?
7. What is your location preference?
8. How do you feel that your friends are placed and you are not yet placed?
9. Any questions for us?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (Hyderabad) in Jul 2012
Interview
3 rounds of Interview Process.
1. Assessment test
2. Technical round
3. HR round.
All rounds at HSBC office on a single day.
Took 14 days for entire process.
Interview process was very smooth.
Technical panelist was very friendly and gave time for settling down.
Technical round was followed by lunch. HR round was more about describing about the company polices. Best place to work.
Overall had a positive experience.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HSBC (Nueva Delhi) in Aug 2016
Interview
There was an Aptitude + Coding based MCQ questions in the first round. The next round was coding round that had two questions. They were relatively simple. Then there was a Technical Interview and then in the end they had a HR interview.
The first round had 95 questions in 110 minutes. They were relatively easy but you had to be fast. They had English, Reasoning, Logical Abilities, C, Algorithm and Java named sections.
The second round was CoCubes website based a simple coding round.
Interviews were pretty much normal only. Basic questions related to C and C++ were asked. Knowledge of Java is an added advantage.