Hsbc·Software Engineer

Hsbc Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

Imphal WestPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process included two interview rounds in an on-campus setting.

The first was technical, where I dealt with OOPS, SQL DBMS, computer networking, and a LeetCode medium-level problem involving topics like linked lists, strings, and binary search. The second round was culture fit and HR.

In my technical conversation, the topics also leaned toward how data is handled in distributed systems. We talked about differences between MongoDB and MySQL and then dug into sharding—why it’s needed, how it works, and how data gets distributed across multiple servers.

The difficulty was listed as average. I didn’t end up getting selected, but the experience felt

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