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HSBC Software Engineer Interview
Questions & Process

What 332 candidates said about the rounds, the
questions and how long the wait really is.

From 332 candidate reports · FREE TO READ

2.7Rounds average
30.1Day average
AverageTypical difficulty
71.4%Positive experience

Questions candidates reported

Quoted word for word from HSBC interview reports.

Engineering accounts for 10,860 of 332 reports, so company-wide questions may lean toward that function. Pick your role above for questions from your own loop.

Formats, difficulty and experience

Across all 332 HSBC interview reports.

Question formats

Technical39.1%
Behavioral31.1%
Coding24.2%
Other1.9%
Group1.3%

Interview difficulty

Easy12.3%
Average68.1%
Difficult19.6%

Candidate experience

Positive71.4%
Neutral19%
Negative9.6%

Reports by job function

Engineering10,860
Operations1,308
Product1,188
Sales1,054
Other762
Marketing542

The interview process

Described in candidates’ own words.

it was a virtual interview and it was a good and interactive. it covered all the dsa concepts and machine learning concepts along with the oops concepts and dbms queries.Candidate-reported process
The process kicked off with a value-based assessment, looking at how I'd handle different scenarios and what my opinions were. Then came a technical assessment with 3 easy coding questions. After that, there was a technical round and an HR round.Candidate-reported process
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.Candidate-reported process
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