Standard Chartered Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Q1. Fluency in language
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Fluency in language is essential for effective communication with clients.
• Fluency in multiple languages is a plus

• Ability to understand and speak clearly is important

• Good communication skills are crucial for client satisfaction
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Q1. Be confident fluency in language
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Q1. Tell me about yourself?
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Q1. Process specific questions
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Q1. What's your salary expectation? How soon can you join?
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It was in the morning. We had to complete 1 coding question in given time limit

Q1. Most Frequent Word
You are given a paragraph that may have letters both in lowercase and uppercase, spaces, and punctuation. You have also given a list of banned words. Now your task is to find the most fr...read more
Ans. Brute Force
1. To find the frequency of each word we need to extract the words from the paragraph.
2. So we will convert all the punctuation to space in the paragraph and lowercase alphabets to uppercase.
3. Now we can use the library function (e.g sstream in C++) to extract words from the paragraph in an array of strings say WORDS.
4. We will iterate over WORDS and do:
   1. Iterate over the banned array and check if the current word is pre...read more
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

Interviewer was friendly. He asked 2 coding questions and some fullstack questions. 

Q1. Ways To Make Coin Change
You are given an infinite supply of coins of each of denominations D = {D0, D1, D2, D3, ...... Dn-1}. You need to figure out the total number of ways W, in which you can make a cha...read more
Ans. Recursion
 
1. The idea is to use recursion.
2. For a particular coin, we have two options either include it or exclude it.
3. If we include that coin, then calculate the remaining number that we have to generate so recur for that remaining number.
4. If we exclude that coin, then recur for the same amount that we have to make.
5. Our final answer would be the total number of ways either by including or excluding.
6. There will be two edg...read more
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Q2. The Skyline Problem
You are given 'N' rectangular buildings in a 2-dimensional city. Your task is to compute the skyline of these buildings, eliminating hidden lines return the skyline formed by th...read more
Ans. Brute Force
The idea here is to first, sort the critical POINTS with respect to their coordinate and height pairs. Make a pair of 'X1' and take a negative of the height for the building so that 'X1' pairs are sorted before 'X2' pairs. Create a dictionary keeping the heights as keys and as soon as a left edge of a building is encountered, we add that building to the dictionary with its height as the key. When we encounte...read more
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Q3. Technical Questions
What is DOM? 
What are indexes in database. 
What is the difference between stored functions and procedures?
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Scenarios containing Information Security awareness

Q1. Stages of Anti Money Laundering
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The stages of Anti Money Laundering involve identification, reporting, investigation, and prosecution.
• Identification: The first stage involves identifying suspicious financial activities that may indicate money laundering.

• Reporting: Once suspicious activities are identified, they must be reported to the appropriate authorities, such as financial intelligence units or law enforcement agencies.

• Investigation: After receiv...read more
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Q2. List of tax heaven countries
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Tax haven countries are jurisdictions with low or no tax rates, often used for tax avoidance purposes.
• Tax havens offer favorable tax regimes to individuals and businesses.

• Some popular tax haven countries include Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and Bermuda.

• Tax havens may have strict banking secrecy laws and lack transparency in financial transactions.

• These countries attract foreign investments and offshore comp...read more
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