HSBC Interview Experience for Software Engineer 2024

HSBC visited our campus on 27th September 2023 and offered a Trainee Software Engineer profile. It had 3 online rounds followed by 2 rounds of Interviews.

Online Test: There were 2 online assessment rounds.

Round 1 was held on September 27th.

Round 1: Aptitude Assessment (30 minutes) :

Here you can take 3 languages C, C++, and Java so there were general MCQ questions on Java which I completed in 30 minutes here we need to be quick and fast enough to complete.

Round 2: Online Coding Assessment (45 minutes)

Question 1 (Very Easy): finding a lucky number

Question 2 (Easy): You have given string str containing 0 and 1. You have to remove either of the substrings 01 or 10 and print the minimum length of the resultant string.eg input-1010 output-2 .

After my assessment, I was shortlisted for the next round which was Behavioral Assessment.

Round 2: Behavioral Assessment :

It was Held on September 28th: Here you should be fast enough to choose the particular option that assesses the kind of person you are. Then It took time to declare the shortlists for Interviews we had an interview scheduled on 4th November.

After my assessment, I was shortlisted for the next round which was Technical Interview.

Interview Rounds: There was one Technical round and one HR round.

Technical Interview: (30-40 minutes):

Here you should be very confident in your resume where every question will be based on your resume never include the concepts you don’t know it could affect you easily for me every question was based on your resume. Here you should be confident with your answers and should prove that you are a good learner.

• Tell me something about yourself.
• Explain About Your Project? (My project was related to the MERN stack). So, they deeply asked me about the project and tech stack I had used in the project and what challenges I had faced during my project. This means you have to explain every aspect of the project. What real-world problem it is solving?
• OOPS Concept is explained briefly with proper examples.
• OOPS Concept which provides security and what kind of security I am applying in my projects.
• In the end, I asked him about the tech stacks used in HSBC about cultures of HSBC.

After 5 minutes I was notified that I had been shortlisted for the HR Round.

HR interview: (15 minutes):

• Tell me something about yourself.
• Tell me something that is not in your resume.
• Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
• Then she asked me about any offer I have.
• She asked me which location I prefer?

After that result came out and among 134 candidates, 27 were selected. unfortunately, I was not selected but it was a wonderful experience.