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Updated 15 Jul 2021

HSBC Group Software Development Engineer Interview Experiences

1 interview found

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Jul 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Questions are scenarios of COBOL
  • Q2. Few technical questions DB2 and jcl

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Dec 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Introduce yourself
  • Q2. What has been your experience with framework design and implementation?
  • Q3. What is the tech and languages you are comfortable with? Rate yourself on each.
  • Q4. What is your experience with finance?
  • Q5. What is TDD and BDD? What are the differences and which one do you prefer?
Round 2 - Technical 

(6 Questions)

  • Q1. Write a program to find the frequency of word in a sentence
  • Q2. Write a program to check if the sum of digits of.the given number is a prime number
  • Q3. Write an SQL query to get the second highest salary in the table
  • Q4. What is the difference between abstract class and interface? Give a use case for both.
  • Q5. Explain static and give it's use case.
  • Q6. Where are objects stored in memory?

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Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Thoroughly practice and study language of your choice
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Medium leetcode question on array list

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Core java and collections, exceptions and threading
  • Q2. Core java collections
  • Q3. Multi threading
  • Q4. Executor framework
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Threading related questions
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

There were three coding questions.

Round 2 - Technical 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Could you provide a thorough explanation of the project?
  • Q2. OOps Concepts and question from the technical subjects
  • Q3. Why Spring Boot
  • Q4. JWT Authentication
  • Q5. Docker and Kubernetes
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed before Mar 2024.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Some questions that range from easy to medium level.

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. General questions around your resume, the tech stacks you worked on, fundamentals and deepdive into that.
  • Q2. High level system design
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Can you describe your experience, the projects you have worked on, challenges you solved and other stuffs around that.
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary discussion
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Test was for Web Development - React
75min test
3 Questions
1 Coding Question
2 Scenario based questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. React Optimization techniques
  • Q2. React Advantages
Round 3 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How to debug in production environment?
Round 4 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Challenges faced during work and how you overcome?
Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Why you choose Wells fargo over other offers?
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Nov 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. They grind u in javascript,typescript
  • Q2. Html css, angular
  • Q3. Deep preparation needed

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Not an easy interview
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Nov 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Project Architecture
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Informatica tech questions
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jun 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. OOP basic about the concept
  • Q2. Ms Sql based sql queries
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How exception handing in api
  • Ans. 

    Exception handling in API involves catching and handling errors that occur during API execution.

    • Use try-catch blocks to catch exceptions and handle them appropriately

    • Throw custom exceptions to provide meaningful error messages to API consumers

    • Use status codes to indicate the outcome of API requests (e.g. 200 for success, 400 for client errors, 500 for server errors)

    • Log exceptions to track errors and troubleshoot issues

    • ...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Code for multiplication table
  • Ans. 

    Code to generate a multiplication table in a programming language

    • Use nested loops to iterate through rows and columns

    • Print the product of row and column for each cell

    • Consider formatting the output for better readability

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I applied via Campus Placement

Round 1 - Coding Test 

DP graphs strings it was good

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Reverse a linkded list
  • Ans. 

    Reverse a linked list by changing the direction of pointers

    • Start with three pointers: current, previous, and next

    • Iterate through the list, updating pointers to reverse the direction

    • Return the new head of the reversed list

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Print fibonacci series
  • Ans. 

    The Fibonacci series is a sequence of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones.

    • Start with two variables initialized to 0 and 1

    • Loop through desired number of iterations, adding the previous two numbers to get the next number

    • Print or store each number in the series

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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