HSBC Interview Experience for SDE-2(Java Dev) exp. 4 yrs – GeeksforGeeks

I recently appeared for HSBC Interview for the Profile of Senior Software Engineer.

Experience: 4years 

Technology Stack: J2EE, Spring Boot, Java 8, Microservices, and Angular Js.

Interview Round in detail: 

• Online Rounds 1 and 2 
• Technical Discussion Round
• Managerial Round
• HR Round

Online Round 1 and 2: There were 7 questions on the hacker rank platform 5 Mcqs related to Java Full Stack and 2 coding questions.

2nd Online Round: Behavioral and Situational Judgement Test (In this round total of 25 Mcqs and video round for Situational-based questions )After this Online Round after the next 2 days, the results were announced, and they sent me an Invite for Technical Discussion.

Technical Round: This is critical as they have asked in-depth about all Java aspects. The questions were from the below topics oral as well as code-sharing rounds where you need to code for functionalities of APIs.

Topics they have asked in a technical discussion.

• Java8 (generics, Lambda, Functional Interface, Concurrency, streams (Optionals, Predicate, Bi-Predicate), SOLID Design Principles, Serial Stream, Lazy stream)
• Springboot
• Rest API: Rest must be strong
• No SQL OR SQL
• Messaging Broker: Kafka, rabbit, database, or any other
• Rest Principles. Open API Spec, Haters, Fine Grain Vs Coarse Grain APIs in business
• Design Patterns
• Multithreading:- Fork & Joins, Sync, Executor Framework, Blocking Q, latch, Barrier, Thread Local
  Profiler
• Multithreading – synchronization, context switching, use of wait/notify, Concurrent package, Executors

Topics they have asked in a Managerial discussion.

• Agile Methodology 
• Reverse a Linked List 
• There were two options to choose from on basis of criticality and event functionality and to make sprint more easily deliverable. Which option you will choose and why?
• Collections (Linked HashSet, HashMap, TreeMap, etc)

HR Discussion: Normal as always why, how, and Salary discussion.