Spring Insight Week applicants have rated the interview process at HSBC with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 58% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Spring Insight Week roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 19 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HSBC overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HSBC as a Spring Insight Week according to 19 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
IQ intelligence test: 20%
Presentation: 15%
Other: 10%
One on one interview: 10%
Personality test: 10%
Drug test: 5%
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Situational judgement tests and online recording review questions. Situational judgement tests are just the normal ones where you have to rank your responses from the most likely to least likely.
I applied online. I interviewed at HSBC (London, England) in Oct 2024
Interview
Online tests first should take 45 minutes to do, and then video interviews should also take around 45 minutes. It is quite easy to pass online tests; just some job simulation questions and personality tests.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During this assessment journey, you'll travel through various areas of the business, linding out about what is's like to work in HSBC, Imagine yourself in the scenarios presented and respond as you really would in that jituation.
What do you do?
Please RANK IN ORDER the options below, with 1 being what you are most likely to do, and 5 being what you are least likely to do
Asked mostly behavioural questions and those about teamwork and past work experiences. The interview was in the form of recorded video answers rather than face to face, gave 30 seconds to think of answer.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HSBC (London, England) in Dec 2023
Interview
3 different tests and one interview meant that the application process took longer than planned. It was worthwhile in the end though, even though it was a bit tiresome. The questions in the interview were fairly standard and the tests seemed to test stamina more than intuition given how long and many they were