I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (Leeds, England) in Apr 2018
Interview
After the application process where I was asked to do online tests and a telephone interview, I was asked to come in for a face-to-face interview at their office in Leeds. The interview was with two managers and involved general competency questions and a case study.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Tell me about a time where you had to react to change in the workplace and how you adapted to it?
They were very nice. Sat me down and read 4 or 5 big questions from some paper. Then they gave me a case study with 2 questions to complete. Very friendly and they helped when they could.
A python written test focus on NumPy and Pandas. It asks about classification problem, especially logistics regression and so on. The interview asks some market news such as Trump policy
1 hour for competency questions (around 6), i.e. Tell us a time you had to communicate with stakeholders.
Case study looking at patterns in data, explaining their implications.
Interview took around 1.5 hours but was scheduled for 2 hours
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about a time you had to communicate with stakeholders
