I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (Pune) in Jan 2014
Interview
I have revived Call from HR from Hyderabad stating that they have opening in Pune location for Datastage Developer and If I am interested in that or not?
I replied Yes then she asked some questions:
1. Tell me about yourself?
2. What is your current work and responsibilities in this company?
3. Expected Salary.
After these question she scheduled my Telephonic Interview for next day 11.00 AM.
Very Next day I have received call from Technical Person For Interview. Which asked below question:
1. Tell me about your self?
2. About your Project and Project Specific some questions?
3. Difference between Datastage Server & Parallel.
4. Join, Lookup, Merge Stage.
5. Aggregator Stage.
6. Transformer Stage.
7. Copy Stage.
8. Active & Passive Stage.
9. Some Scenario Based Questions.
10. Dataset.
11. Unix Related Question. Rate your self and some commands.
12. Oracle related question. ate your self.
It was lasted around 1 hour then he asked what is your notice period & expected salary.
Next Day I have received call from HR again that you have cleared Telephonic Interview and now after 2 Days your F2f Technical and HR Interview is scheduled.
IN F2F interview was lasted around 30 mins in which he asked only 1 Technical scenario based question rest all managerial and Dw related questions.
In HR interview we had discussed on salary which was a vegetable market discussion and after 30 mins long negotiation we have agreed on one Number.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why you left your previous company. As I have left my pervious company in 4 Months.
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