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      First Year Interview

      9 Aug 2016
      Anonymous employee
      Birmingham, England

      Other First Year interview reviews for HSBC

      First Year Interview

      2 Dec 2018
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at HSBC (Birmingham, England) in Sept 2015

      Interview

      The interview process included an online application, online test and a phone interview. After this I was invited for the assessment Center and then I was given an offer. The whole process took around 2 months.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      competency. Tell me an instance when.. ? STAR answer
      1 Answer
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at HSBC (London, England) in Jan 2017

      Interview

      Online questions to fill out via website, ~ 4 weeks later telephone interview with standard competency based questions. Another ~ 4 weeks later slotted on an A/C. This consisted of a case study where you had to give written recommendations which were assessed, afterwards group exercise based on the case study where we had to discuss our recommendations. Mid-group discussion assessor came in with "new information" which we had to evaluate. Following group discussion 2 interviews one competency the other one "business scenarios" (e.g. 'you've been asked to work on two projects, but know you can't complete both in time- what would you do?').

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why HSBC? Name a time you faced a difficult situation whilst working as part of a group? What recent news did you think was interesting (after was asked how I thought this relates to HSBC)?
      Answer question

      First Year Interview

      14 May 2016
      Anonymous employee
      Manchester, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at HSBC (Manchester, England) in Apr 2016

      Interview

      It's a telephone interview. The HR girl was really patient and nice. the questions are not hard, can be fully prepared. there were simple motivation questions like why banking why hsbc why first year internship

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      describe a time when you deal with something challenging
      Answer question

      Question 2

      describe a time when you find somebody is hard to work with
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