I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at HSBC (Kraków) in May 2022
Interview
Recruitment process for the position way beyond candidate's experience and knowledge with coding skills test on a whiteboard! during Zoom call.
Very positive 1st interview and negative the 2nd hence Neutral
The process was as follows: the recruiter reached out to me via linkedin for the analyst position. I had a quick screening phone and I was soon invited to the 1st technical interview (the position should be rather named Data Scientist) consisting of Python, SQL and Statistics questions. It went so so, because it was very detailed and for someone with working knowledge and experience in Data Science and Machine Learning (not me). Yet the interview was conducted in very nice atmosphere and it helped me a lot to locate the gaps in my knowledge so I rate it positively.
To my suprprise I was invited to the 2nd round which was a bizzare experience with silence from the new recruiters after almost every answer given and clear indication that they don't plan to hire me right from the start. Same time scheduled as for the 1st interview but complete waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some questions from the interviews:
1) Describe Data project you were involved with, biggest challenges and how you copy with them.
2) Explain what it is linear regression
3) What machine learning algorithms do you know?
3) Explain how to handle missing values
4) Explain how to handle messy data
5) Name different types of outliers
6) SQL: types of JOINs, LIKE, DISTINCT
7) PYTHON key words: vertical and horizontal concatenation, removing spaces in strings, filling missing values
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (Central) in Apr 2024
Interview
it was quiet formal, ask normal interview questions. What was the one thing that they asked you?What was the one thing that they asked you?What was the one thing that they asked you?
talk about previous experience, motivation for applying, talk about current position day to day work etc, what systems i know, period notice, when can i start, availability, no questions about the general AML knowledge or the swiss laws
Very formal, every question was down to the earth and really was set to understand you as a person, very traditional questions. I thought it was going to be harder but by my surprise it was very meaningful
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q. Why would you want to work at HSBC
Q. How have you used compliance in your everyday life or work