HSBC Group Software Developer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It was an online assessment with coding and aptitude questions.

Q1. Contains Duplicate
You have been given an array “ARR” of integers and an integer ‘K’. Your task is to find a pair of distinct indices ‘i’ and ‘j’ such that ARR[i] == ARR[j] and | i - j | <= ‘K’.
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Ans. 
I used HashMap to store each integer and its count. If the integer is already in the HashMap then returned false.
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Round duration - 15 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

HSBC Value-Based Assessment

Q1. Behavioural Question
How will you handle a certain situation in your office?
Ans. 
Tip 1 : Be yourself 
Tip 2 : Be confident
Tip 3 : Do your research about the company 
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Technical Round on DS, DBMS, OS, Algorithms, Projects on Resume

Q1. Data Structures Question
Which data structures are used for implementing LRU cache?
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Q2. Data Structures Question
How is a stack different from a queue?
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Q3. DBMS Question
What do you understand by functional dependency and transitive dependency in DBMS?
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Q4. DBMS Question
What is normalization and what are the different types of normalization?
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Q5. Operating System Question
What is a bootstrap program in OS?
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Round duration - 20 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was a basic HR round with some standard behavioural questions