Hsbc Software Engineer interview experience

The coding segment was short and tight—about 15 minutes for the coding question—so I had to commit to an approach quickly.

After the code, I had to talk through my solution and my thought process. That became the backbone of the next technical interview: I walked through the logic I used, and we also discussed tests related to the code and why I’d built it that way. The overall flow included infrastructure-leaning discussion too, with an emphasis on the approach I’d take and the kind of architecture I’d follow.

It was described as an average-difficulty loop for me end to end, and it lasted