I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at HSBC in Nov 2014
Interview
They were very chill. It was a phone interview and then a face to face interview. It was mostly based on fit questions and there weren't any technical questions. it was a back to back interview with two people and it seemed like it was a good cop and bad cop type of interview. The fit questions were very typical, revolving around leadership experience, why HSBC, and name your weakness.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC
Interview
3 1-on-1 interview, with band 3, case study. They don't look at your CV, a set of standard private banking questions, both technical and behavioural, prepared by HR, pretty chill, you will also have a QA section, so be prepared
one HR round, superday with 3 MDs over zoom if you are not in the city, the questions are very standard and pretty much the same for all the candidate, it followed different themes