I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (Coventry, Inglaterra) in Nov 2016
Interview
1) Check your BG: Your Gaokao result if you are from China, your undergraduate result and postgruaduate result if you are in your master
2) Motivation Qs: Why bankings type
3) Competency Qs: Give me an example type
4) Q&A
Before each question you can ask for a while to think about the answer and the entire process would last around 45 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why financial Service?
Why HSBC?
Why China Returns
What challenge you expect in your position is the most challenging?
What can you bring to HSBC?
Give me an example you solve a problem
Give me an example you make a dedision and persuade others
Pretty easy, only a round of VI, manager interview and that is it. About the manager interview is more about culture fit instead of technical questions. They want to see if you can fit in the team or not.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at HSBC (Shanghái, Shanghai) in Sep 2024
Interview
the first round will not screening on the resume, but after the application directly give you an online job assessment, includes personality test, graph test.... After this is the VI, then interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the most you are going take the opprotunities from the HSBC
The outcome of video interview was confusing, firstly received invitation for later stage, then all of the sudden another email came through saying that I was rejected. Very disappointing, but this is indeed a great company though, will definitely try again this year.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you think you are a good fit for this role?