Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at HSBC with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.5% 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 155 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HSBC overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HSBC as a Software Engineer according to 155 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 16%
Presentation: 13%
Background check: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 10%
Personality test: 8%
Drug test: 6%
Phone interview: 5%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 2%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at HSBC (Pune)
Interview
two rounds of easy-level questions on LeetCode. These rounds often cover fundamental coding concepts, including arrays, strings, hashmaps, or basic algorithms. They might focus on problems like:
Array and String Manipulation
Finding Duplicates
Basic Sorting and Searching
Simple Data Structures (e.g., HashMap)
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Basic Sorting and Searching
Simple Data Structures (e.g., HashMap)
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.
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Question 1
linux stuff, networking, C programming, a little C++
I applied through 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