I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (Pune) in May 2012
Interview
Process will start with the interview invitation from HSBC. Once you arrive at venue first will be technical test. Once Test is cleared then first technical interview almost lengthy one. if got selected then HR interview.
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Questions will be on every topic of the technology even though you will not work on those in HSBC. Not too much deeper questions just overall questions to get the idea of your knowledge. Questions can be on SDLC life cycle starting to end.
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.
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linux stuff, networking, C programming, a little C++
I applied through college or 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
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What is component scan and how is it different from @component