I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (London, England) in Sep 2012
Interview
Telephone Interview: Competency based questions approximately for 40 minutes. Two basic questions with follow-up questions when you have to describe your example in more details.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please tell us a time when you helped someone and changed his life.
filling in the application, one numerical test followed by a phone interview and a whole-day AC. questions were very straightforward, following the competencies published on their website. not much technical knowledge required, the interviewer spent 80% of time focusing on competency-based questions e.g. name the time you had a disagreement with someone from your team, how did you resolve it and what did you learn from it, so quite predictable.AC was trickier, as it involves a written report, an exercise in role-playing, group exercise and a final one-to-one interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you think your acquired skills will benefit HSBC?