HSBC Placement Papers
      
      
        
        Paper Type : General - Interview  
        Test Date : 27 October 2007  
         
        HSBC INTERVIEW ON 27th OCTOBER 2007 
         
        Hi Friends, I went to the interview which was an off campus one.If im 
        not wrong they were around 2k students who gave the Interview out of 
        which 30 got selected. 
         
        This is how the whole selection procedure was 
        1) Aptitude+Technical written test 
        2) Technical Interview 
        3) H.R Interview 
         
        The Aptitude comprised of Verbal reasoning, Quants, Analytical 
        Reasoning.The technical had C&C++ and DBMS. In verbal they had Fill in 
        the blanks,Rcs and Give the closest meaning. Verbal was quite easy 
        though the reading passages were a bit tuff but still not that hard 
        either. 
        For Quants a bit of brushing of basics is really going to help, they 
        asked questions like two trains moving in each direction etc. The 
        analytical reasoning was the easiest of all. In Technical they 
        concentrated more on the programs of C&C++ like a program and then 
        depending on that the errors which can pop up while execution. Out of 
        2000 students 250 cleared the Apptitude. 
         
        Then came the technical interview,dis is how it went 
        1)Tell me something about Yourself? 
        Told 
        2)What is the difference between C nd C++? 
        told 
        3)Why is C++ called the oops Language? 
        Oops..Dont Know..told about encapsulation,abstratction etc...she looked 
        quite satisfied. 
        and then came the programs... 
        4)given a set of 10 numbers write a program which is going to choose 
        numbers which only end with 3(not 6,9) and then add them.then Select 
        numbers which start wid 9 and add them after that subtract the sum of 
        both...Took a bit of time but wrote.She was happy. 
        5)Given a set of numbers wap so as to pick a number which is a perfect 
        square. 
        6)Wap for a palyndrome( Eg DAD) 
        7)WAP to take a number from the user (any digits) seperate the digits 
        and add the squares of the digits. 
        8)WAP on Bubble sort using Pointes. 
        well those were the programs though they were easy it took a bit of pain 
        to re call the logic of each nd every program. 
        She didnt asked a thing on DBMS. 
         
        After around 4 hrs the technical results were declared and I got through 
        then came HR interview,nd dis is how that went 
        HR-Sorry for making you wait this long( The time was 8 30 pm-The actual 
        time was 9 AM of day 2) 
        Ray- No,probs sir. 
        HR-ok,tell me something about ur profile 
        Ray-Said 
        HR-OK Good..Now what are your career Goals and how are you planning to 
        achieve them 
        Ray-Said 
        HR-Stress a bit more on your skills 
        Ray-Comm skills,Team player and PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY 
        HR-what do u mean by problem solving ability(PSA)? 
        Ray-Said 
        HR-Give one example where in ur PSA was utilised 
        Ray-made one and said..lol 
        HR-why HSBC?? 
        Ray-Said 
        HR-What you know abt HSBC?? 
        Ray-HSBC-Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Co-operation. 
        It has its branches in 82 countries. 
        It work in various domains like Data warehousing,Mainframes etc. 
        It is an Industry in Itself 
        HR-You got any questions for me?? 
        Ray-Yep..asked one. 
        HR-OKay..Ray Thankyou. 
        Ray-My pleasure... 
         
        This is how it went and after 2 hrs the result was declared and BOY..my 
        name was actually there..and I was so happy... The pay package which dey 
        offered was hmmm... well..am not suppose to say that. 
         
        My advice to all is They are concentrating more on your comm skills, so 
        be sure that in both ur HR nd TEch interview ur FLUENT dont stammer 
        aruond and make sure what ur talking makes sense because specially in HR 
        there was lot of Cross questioning. 
         
        HSBC doesnt have any BOND process so with the pay package and the scope 
        which it has it definelty one of the best companies around to work for. 
         
        By, 
        Ray | 
       
       
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