HSBC Interview Experience for SDE

HSBC visited our campus to conduct interviews for the trainee software engineer profile. Only B.tech females were eligible to participate in this profile.

The interview process comprised five(5) rounds. The recruitment process proceeded as follows:

Round 1: Computer-Based Online Test

The first round consisted of an online test. The test covered the following topics:

• Analytical Ability
• Quantitative Ability
• Verbal Ability
• Technical (includes OS, DBMS, SQL queries, and computer networks)

Duration: 60 minutes

Note: The questions were at an intermediate to difficult level.

Those who clear this round proceeded to the next round.

Round 2: Coding

In this round, we had to solve two questions. The questions were at an intermediate level.

One was based on a combination of both strings and arrays.

The Second was based on dynamic programming.

Duration: 25 minutes

Note: time constraint was the biggest challenge to solve the problem within a given time constraint.

Out of 2 questions, I was able to solve only one question. Because of that, I was able to proceed to the next round.

Round 3: Online HSBC Value Assessment

In this round, they conducted an online value assessment to evaluate the candidates. It was simply a behavioral round in which various situations were given, and we had to select the option that we would choose in each case.

Duration: 20 minutes

Round 4: Technical Interview

Duration: 60 minutes

In this round following this covered:

• Introduction.
• Oops, concepts.
• project discussion.
• linked list. hashing, BST, and many data structure concepts.
• ask me to write the code ( Inheritance, merge two linked lists).
• strength and weakness.
• machine learning concepts (datasets, the definition of machine learning, how we train data, and many more), I had mentioned in my resume.
• feedback

Round 5: HR round

I was unable to clear round 4, so I did not have the experience of participating in this HR round.