Specialist Consultant applicants have rated the interview process at HSBC with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Specialist Consultant roles take an average of 8 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HSBC overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HSBC as a Specialist Consultant according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 21%
Skills test: 21%
Group panel interview: 21%
Personality test: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Phone interview: 7%
One on one interview: 7%
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I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at HSBC (Pune) in Jan 2026
Interview
Got call after 3+ weeks of application. Got interviewed for the first round but result was not provided. Upon reaching out I was informed I am the only one who cleared the interview but the hiring is on hold globally for revising the headcount. I got the same answer for next 2 months.
Then I got to know that this could be a timepass that company does to show the government that they are continuously hiring. They just wasted my time and crushed my excitement for new opportunity. Extremely unprofessional, you should revise headcount before hiring and stop this timepass.
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (Guangzhou, Guangdong) in Mar 2026
Interview
I’ll start with a brief self-introduction in English, and then continue in Chinese to walk through my project experience and discuss some ETL design-related topics. HR first contacted me and told me there would be two rounds of interviews.
1st round is of technical interview where they will ask about automation related questions and coding related questions
2nd round of technical as well as managerial interview
3rd round is HR discussion
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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