HSBC Global Banking and Markets Senior Associate Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Tell me about your self
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Q2. Personal details
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Q1. Explain Black and Scholes model in detail
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Black-Scholes model is a mathematical model used to calculate the theoretical price of European-style options.
• Developed by Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton in 1973

• Assumes stock prices follow a lognormal distribution

• Factors in the option's strike price, time to expiration, risk-free interest rate, and volatility of the underlying asset

• Helps in determining the fair value of options and other derivatives

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Logical reasoning permutations combination general knowledge and Writing Skills.

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Q1. General introduction with questions Related to your studies, which is critical to recall and typing speed test.
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Q1. They tried to reject as worst manager will make you down and leave the room on lowest payroll.
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Q2. Introduction round
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Q3. If hired then at very low wage rate as per Gurugram wage rate
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Q4. Only they will convince you to join other organisations. Means they will reject you. If convincing power is more you will be in.
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It was nice test about the financial terms And Details

Q1. It was all about questions for Unix and SQL
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Q2. It was asked for the financial terms And concepts as well
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Q1. Read about what is coupling
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Q2. What are load balancing techniques
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Load balancing techniques distribute incoming network traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server is overwhelmed.
• Round Robin: Distributes requests evenly among servers in a circular manner.

• Least Connections: Sends requests to the server with the fewest active connections.

• IP Hash: Uses a hash of the client's IP address to determine which server to send the request to.

• Weighted Round Robin: Assigns a weight...read more
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Q3. Design a trading system
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Design a trading system for buying and selling stocks
• Define the criteria for selecting stocks to buy/sell

• Implement risk management strategies to protect against losses

• Set up automated trading algorithms to execute trades based on predefined rules

• Monitor market trends and adjust trading strategies accordingly
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Q4. Optimise database read
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Q5. Design high volume data intensive applications
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Designing high volume data intensive applications involves optimizing data storage, retrieval, and processing for large amounts of data.
• Utilize distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop or Spark for processing large datasets

• Implement data partitioning and sharding to distribute data across multiple servers for scalability

• Use caching mechanisms to reduce latency in data retrieval

• Optimize database queries and indexes ...read more
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Q1. Related to process and current work experience
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Q1. Capital and Money market
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Q1. 5 ways of initializing SAS Macro variables
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There are multiple ways to initialize SAS Macro variables.
• Using the %LET statement

• Using the %GLOBAL statement

• Using the %SYSCALL macro function

• Using the %SYSFUNC macro function

• Using the %DO loop
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Q2. Difference between Merge and Sql Join
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Merge is a function in pandas library used to combine two dataframes based on a common column, while SQL join is used to combine tables based on a specified condition.
• Merge is a function in pandas library, while SQL join is a clause in SQL.

• Merge combines two dataframes based on a common column, while SQL join combines tables based on a specified condition.

• Merge can perform inner, outer, left, and right joins, while SQL...read more
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Q3. 5 proc statements
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