I applied through college or university. I interviewed at HSBC in Jan 2022
Interview
It was a interview platform and had to record urself answering the questions that they gave. Maximum 3 attempts and the first question which is intro has unlimited number of attempts
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something along the lines like why do you want to apply the role chosen
1st round: self intro with HR .
2nd round : some basic understanding of department campaign and some about the cv ( not very hard and takes about 30 min)
3x 30 minute interviews with competency, finance technical and case study followed by qna. Assessment centre had 4 of us total though interviews were 1 to 1. Tiring but a good experience
Virtual interview. 3x 30 minute interiews for VAC. Variety of interviewers at each stage. Commercial awareness is present in the interview, so make so sure you understand and know current events.