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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (Pune) in Oct 2025
Interview
Coding Assessment was conducted initially.
The Technical Round was face-to-face, where the panel mainly focused on understanding of core concepts, especially OOPS, and a clear explanation of my project workflow and architecture.
HR Round was also completed, which included discussion about previous company work culture and compensation / offer details.
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Question 1
OOps concepts with real coding sepacialy inheritance,abstraction related, Diff b/w camparable and comparator, Hashmap and concurrentHashmap difference, collectiones diagram, String code, Spring Security
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at HSBC (Toronto, ON) in Apr 2025
Interview
Technical round - Coding questions like leetcode challenges. You would be given 30 minutes for the coding round. You will be sharing screen while doing the code. Also another half an hour with usual Java, Spring and API design questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to improve the performance of API when you design?
The process took 2 days. I interviewed at HSBC (Krakow, WI) in Jan 2024
Interview
Initial interviev at the beggining, next some techical questions. Surfing the techical part: Basically typical Java question, some spring boot etc. Some database questions. Also about architekture and projekt design
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What does immutable means? Also some about spring beans