I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HSBC in Sept 2016
Interview
Applied through campus recruitment. One day process.
There were four rounds:
1. Aptitude + Technical Online test
2. Coding
3. Technical Interview
4. HR Interview
Aptitude round had 5 sections: passage (selecting the right words for fill in the blanks), Arithmetic Aptitude, Attention to Detail, C & Data Structures, Algorithms, Java
passage was tricky, Arithmetic Aptitude and Attention to Detail were easily doable, C & Data Structures, Algorithms, Java were doable if you have practiced well.
I was exempted from coding interview because I was among the top 6 in the first round. But I heard that the coding round was fairly easy.
So 6 from the first round and and 6 from second round were shortlisted. For technical and HR.
After clearing the technical interview, I was selected for HR along with one more guy. We both were given offers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical (I am from non-CS background so I was asked different variety of questions):
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Tell me about the projects you did.
3. Tell me about how you would approach a problem if you are working alone on a weekend and no one is there to help you.
4. Tell me the difference between Java and C.
5. What is Data Scrapping?
6. What is Data Analytics?
7. What is difference between them?
8. Explain Hadoop and MapReduce in detail.
9. What is Cloud Computing?
10. Difference between IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
11. What is Big Data? How is it different from traditional data. Give example.
12. How big data can be used in banking sector?
13. What is machine learning? Give example.
14. Do you know about DBMS? Write five SQL commands.
15. Do you know about OS? What is paging? Write five Linux commands.
16. What is the difference between Java and C?
17. Explain Polymorphism.
18. Any questions for us?
HR (Easier and relaxed):
1. You are from a non-CS background then why IT field?
2. Why didn't you change branch in first year?
3. How many companies you sat for interview till now? Why not selected yet?
4. Why leave a metro city and come to a smaller city for college?
5. Why is the number of girls is less in engineering colleges?
6. What do you do on your weekdays and weekends?
7. How do you chill on your weekends?
7. What is your location preference?
8. How do you feel that your friends are placed and you are not yet placed?
9. Any questions for us?
Contract interview, only 1-2 actual hires, rest is all contractor. In office/onsite. Legacy system, low level, linux, old banking software, included a lot of networking questions, low level, linux questions and things of that nature.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
linux stuff, networking, C programming, a little C++
I applied through university. I interviewed at HSBC
Interview
The selection process consisted of four rounds: Coding, Behavioral, Technical, and HR. The interview mainly focused on basics of SQL, computer networks, writing code in any one programming language, and SQL queries. Aptitude questions were also included. There was no discussion about projects, and the process did not proceed to the HR round.
Simple interviews with basic to advance java concepts with spring boot and backend development like hashing component scan repository and more about backend development with respect to java 8 entity and object annotations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is component scan and how is it different from @component