A Consultant at HN Services Portugal is not just a technical delivery resource; they are the vital link between complex business requirements and scalable IT solutions. HN Services Portugal specializes in identifying, training, and deploying high-potential talent to major enterprise clients across Europe, particularly in financial services, insurance, and utilities. Your ultimate impact in this role lies in your ability to rapidly absorb client domain knowledge, design clean data pipelines or dashboards, and represent the company's high standards of delivery directly on-site or in hybrid client teams.

The role is highly dynamic, often starting with intensive, paid professional training (formation) to align your technical capabilities with the specific needs of modern enterprise environments. Whether you are stepping into a specialized role like a Développeur Power BI / Consultant Data or a broader IT consulting position, the company prioritizes your analytical mindset and problem-solving capability over pre-existing niche experience. This makes the position both highly accessible to analytical minds and exceptionally rewarding for those looking to accelerate their career.

By joining HN Services Portugal, you enter a structured ecosystem where continuous learning is embedded into your career path. You will work on high-impact projects that influence business intelligence, data governance, and operational efficiency for major market players. It is an inspiring yet demanding environment that requires adaptability, sharp logical reasoning, and strong professional communication.

The questions you will encounter during the HN Services Portugal selection process are designed to evaluate your raw cognitive capacity, logical structuring, and consulting potential. Because the company hires heavily based on potential and provides comprehensive training, expect a strong emphasis on logic and algorithmic thinking over complex syntax.

Logical Reasoning & Pattern Recognition

This category tests your non-verbal intelligence, pattern detection, and ability to work accurately under extreme time pressure.

• Complete a sequence of five dominoes where the top half follows an addition rule and the bottom half follows a subtraction rule.
• You are given three sequential grid images showing rotating geometric shapes. Identify how the fourth and fifth images must look.

To stand out in the competitive HN Services Portugal hiring pipeline, you must shift your focus from rote memorization to active, timed problem-solving. The interviewers look for candidates who remain calm under pressure and demonstrate structured thinking.

Cognitive Agility & Logical Speed – Your ability to process visual patterns and logical matrices rapidly is critical. At HN Services Portugal, this is evaluated through strict, timed assessments where speed and accuracy are equally vital.

Algorithmic Structuring – You must show that you can map out processes visually and systematically. Practice breaking down everyday activities or business processes into clear, logical steps using standard flowchart symbols.

Learning Coachability – Because HN Services Portugal invests heavily in your growth through paid training, you must demonstrate a high capacity to absorb new frameworks, accept feedback, and pivot quickly.

Client-Facing Communication – As a future Consultant, you represent the company's brand. Interviewers assess your professional presence, clarity of speech, and ability to translate complex logic into simple business terms.

The selection process at HN Services Portugal is structured to identify high-potential analytical minds through a rigorous, multi-stage assessment. It often begins with a group recruitment session or a rapid screening call, where the overall process is detailed. This is immediately followed by a high-stakes testing phase designed to filter out candidates who do not meet the firm's cognitive benchmarks.

The testing phase is notoriously fast-paced and difficult, combining non-verbal IQ tests (such as domino patterns) and algorithmic flowchart exercises. Only candidates who pass these tests move forward to the presentation and individual interview rounds. This process ensures that those who enter the paid training program possess the baseline cognitive capabilities required to succeed in challenging client placements.

This visual timeline illustrates the journey from the initial screening and high-stakes logical assessments to the final individual interview and offer. Candidates should note that the technical testing phase acts as a strict gateway; preparing for logical puzzles and flowchart diagrams beforehand is essential to advancing.

Logical & Non-Verbal Reasoning

This is the most critical bottleneck in the HN Services Portugal process. The firm uses these tests to measure fluid intelligence—your capacity to solve novel problems independent of acquired knowledge. Strong performance is characterized by rapid pattern recognition and high accuracy under tight time constraints.

Be ready to go over:

• Domino Sequences – Recognizing mathematical progressions, symmetry, and rotation in domino dot patterns.
• Matrix Reasoning – Identifying rules governing changing shapes, colors, or positions across a grid of images.
• Time Management – Developing a strategy to answer up to 30 complex visual logic questions in 15 minutes without getting stuck on a single puzzle.
• Advanced concepts – Overlapping geometric rules (where multiple patterns occur simultaneously in a single matrix) and modulo arithmetic applied to visual elements.

Example scenarios:

• "Complete a sequence of five dominoes where the top half follows an addition rule (+1, +2, +3) and the bottom half follows a subtraction rule."
• "Identify the 4th and 5th frames of a 3-image sequence where shapes rotate clockwise while changing fill patterns."

Algorithmic Flowcharts (Organigrammes)

Before writing code, a successful Consultant must master the logic of process execution. This area evaluates your ability to design and read visual representations of algorithms using standardized flowchart symbols (decisions, inputs/outputs, processes).

Be ready to go over:

• Conditional Logic – Designing multi-path decision trees (if/else structures) to handle diverse business scenarios.
• Looping Mechanisms – Correctly implementing and terminating loops (while/for) to prevent infinite execution.
• Error Handling – Mapping out fallback branches when an input fails validation or a system error occurs.
• Advanced concepts – Nested loops and multi-variable state tracking within visual flowcharts.

Example scenarios:

• "Draw a flowchart that details the step-by-step logic of an automated ATM withdrawal, including PIN validation and insufficient funds checks."
• "Analyze a provided flowchart and determine the final value of a tracking variable after three iterations of a loop."

Data Consulting & Client Delivery

For candidates targeting data-centric roles like Développeur Power BI / Consultant Data, technical logic must translate into business value. Interviewers evaluate how you approach data modeling, dashboard design, and stakeholder management.

Be ready to go over:

• Data Visualization Best Practices – Choosing the right charts and layouts to make complex data actionable for business users.
• Requirement Gathering – Translating ambiguous client requests into concrete technical specifications.
• Stakeholder Alignment – Managing expectations and presenting technical solutions to non-technical business leaders.
• Advanced concepts – Designing scalable data models (star schemas) and optimizing complex DAX queries for performance.

Example scenarios:

• "How would you design a Power BI dashboard for a sales director who wants to see both high-level regional performance and individual transaction details?"
• "Explain how you would handle a client who insists on putting too much raw data onto a single dashboard screen."