Simple questions at the beginning; someone entered in the middle surprisingly, maybe, tried to steer the whole process to different directions. There was a follow-up phone call, HR screening, etc.
I applied online. I interviewed at HSBC (Kraków) in May 2016
Interview
Applied online via pracuj.pl and get a response back from HR after a month. They scheduled interview in two weeks time. Then waiting 2 weeks for results. Overall easy interview if you are good technically. Very kind people. Only minus was that I had to wear business formal outfit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic probability, algo, programming and finance questions.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HSBC (Portland, OR) in Sep 2010
Interview
The phone interview consisted of come basic statistics queries: if you have 9 socks in a drawer and 4 are black and 5 are red, what is the likelihood that the third sock you pick is red. Then there was the typical thinking questions of, "How many miles of highways are in the U.S."
Its important to ask questions when doing any case study with HSBC. They have a pool of facts to feed you, but will withhold them if you don't ask. for them.
Know a great deal about HSBC and why you want to work there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There is a drawer with 9 socks, five black and four red, how many socks do you have to pick blindly before you know that you have a matching set.