Spring Week applicants have rated the interview process at HSBC with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at HSBC as a Spring Week according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Personality test: 33%
Skills test: 33%
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I applied online. I interviewed at HSBC in Feb 2019
Interview
You first have to do an online application, after which you are invited to do a combination of numerical and situational judgement tests. If you receive the benchmark scores you are then invited to a telephone interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about an interesting story that happened in the market recently?
Why are values important to a company?
Tell us about your weaknesses and how you will work to overcome these weaknesses?
Why HSBC?
Online assessment consisting of personality questions and basic math questions followed by video interview asking basic questions and investment decision. There were several video interview questions consisting of basic behavioural questions.
It was a standard interview asking about interest and testing your basic problem-solving skills for the Spring Insight Week. It was a recorded type of interview with standard questions and no follow ups.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please tell me why you are interested in this role
the interview was fairly straightforward, not many difficult video questions, and only about 4 of them. Time management is the main challenge in my opinion, as it has to be done under 40 minutes