HSBC Software Development Consultant Interview Questions and Answers

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Brushup basics.

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - When I joined as a 3 year experienced, the interview the questions were basic and can be easily cleared by a 3 year experienced. It was more to measure the overall aptitude than to pin point each skill.

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well on standard SD topics and explain the work you have done in your previous projects

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep all basic concepts clear foe whichever role you are applying for

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - The process took a whole month. The waiting hours are long. Brush up on your skills and be confident. Lot of times they look at how well you answer and are trying to gauge how your mind works.

Round: Client Round
Experience: Client of Capgemini calls the candidate and aks technical questions.

General Tips: I got call from HR and they collected general information about my professional and personal information. After that I got call from another HR person for asking about expected salary and notice period. Then he scheduled my technical interview. Technical person called me and asked technical questions. He asked much more questions but in company they do not even use that.
after one week I got call from HR that I cleared first round and there will client round. Client call me next day and he asked almost same technical questions. After one week I got call from HR person that I got selected and asked about salary expectation. But he has predicted salary and did not negotiated on salary.When I accepted it, next day he sent me offer letter.
Skills: T-SQL , MS SQL SERVER, Communication
Duration: 1-4 weeks

Round: Test
Experience: Speed Maths was easy, it was such that
silly mistakes were quite probable. It lasted for an hour. English was for 1.5
hrs. It was based on TOFEL(speaking, writing, listening)

General Tips: Criteria for getting shortlisted for
Capgemini’s stages of selection was performing well in puzzles and maths.

They did not stress on PORs or internships,
neither did they take the minor into account.No case study topics asked were asked.1st years- Concentrate on CG, put fight for
Day 1, Day 2 companies

2nd years- Concentrate on CG,try learning
coding(coursera) and algorithmic and financial analytics.

Try to obtain an internship in the company
you want to get placed in. It may not be a very good intern, but should be a
meaningful one.

3rd years-Focus on CG, obtain a good
internship.



Practice maths in the last 4
months.(probability mainly)



If you want a finance company, then read newspaper regularly, try to
obtain certifications like CFA, NCFM, etc.
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Test
Experience: Quant was most important for the tests, fast mathematics, then technical questions. Technical questions

generally asked by the company. The tests were mostly MCQ. Some tests were there which had subjective question papers. Those subjective type tests lasted 3 hours. They would write a program to do *task* type questions. The programming

language to write the code in, was our choice. The language options were C, C++, Python, Java. Python was rarely asked

Round: Group Discussion
Tips: The skills they wanted to test was to see how well they were able to express their ideas, but without outwardly disrupting others while talking.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR usually starts with “Tell me about yourself”. Then they go through the resume, and ask about the project (DDP, in this case) and internship. This was done by the HR team, just to see how the candidate is putting forth his ideas and contributions clearly. Two puzzles were given in the interview.The interview was at least 40 minutes, with 5 minutes of HR interview HR people were not interested in the depth of the resume, but rather on whether the candidate was able to talk or not. It was used to eliminate some people.
Tips: People with low CGPA had to perform exceptionally well to compensate for the low CGPA. For managerial positions, PoRs like coordships, coreships etc can be used to pitch your leadership qualities. They can start a chain of conversation that involves the work you did, on how you managed to execute the task efficiently, which ends up working in your favor.

Skill Tips: Focus on your Study.. Revise the subject that you have studied at the time of Interview
Skills: Technical Skills
College Name: IIT MADRAS