There was three rounds of selection procedure:1.Written 2.Technical interview 3.

HR round 1Written test- there were total 6 round of written test indiviually on Vocabulary test, Anlaytical ability, JCL, COBOL, DB2, and CICS. Vocaubalry test was of 20 marks. They picked up a an article from some newspaper or online based on home inspection and introduced 20 blanks in the para. For every 20 blanks there will be four options given and based on the meanning and suitability at the postion, you have to find out the correct option. Analytical test was of 20 ques and you have to cover it in 20 mins. I personally felt that the ques was not very tough but you need to be quick. 5 ques was based on SET. 2 ques was on Logical reasoning (QUIT easy) 5 was pure MATHS(Easy one) In COBOL they asked 10 ques, need to be answered in 10 mins. Few ques I remember like:1.What is the default print format a) DUMP b) hexadecimal c) binary 2. pick the correct format to read an ESDS file a) organisation is sequential b) organisation is indexed c)organisation is sequntial, record mode is FB 3. How do we cast a variable in COBOL a)Can't be done b)simply assign the variable to another variable 4.) In case of file lengthe mismatch between logical and physical file, the erro no is:a)39 b)46 c)soc7 5. Whcih PIC clause is used for floating point a)COMP b)COMP1 c)COMP2 d)COMP3 In JCL again there were 10 ques in 10 mins, need to be quick 1. What is allowed to check in condition parameter a)RC b)CC c)ABNEDCC d)all of the options 2.what is true about JCL a)It is not case sensitive b)The job name should start from or before column 12 c)The job name is not required d)all DB2 was quite easy section but you need to be very very quick....Questions was mostly on select statement. 1. Two table was given and you had to have a select statement which should satisfy the given condition.. You need to check relation between both the tables. 4-5 ques was on same . 2. What are the diff steps for CURSOr a) Declare, Open, Fetch, Close b)Define, open, fetch,close c)open, fetch,close 3.-922 indicates a)DB2resource not available b)record lenght mismatch c)object not found CICS again was of 10 marks , in 10 mins...All basic ques, can't remember much but few ques were like;;;-

1. MAPSET means: a)Group of defined maps b)Group of map fileds c)group of maps 2. one ques on psuedo conversation 3. one ques on TDQ 4. Can one transcation invoke multiple task a)can not invoke b)invoke c)Transaction Id can not invoke TASK itself 5.PPT is:a)contains transcation Id b)contains mapset name and program name

Do not forget each round has sectional cut off, so you have to pass each section.....Finally, I got through written. Next comes technical round.... HR was coll, first he asked me to intorduce myself in brief, basically he was intersted to know my work profile, I mean what extent I have worked on. then he shot ques indiviually from all sections. in DB2 a long time discussion on bind and package, confused me a lot...so be thorough.. then he asked me about error -811 and how will I resolve it. Expalined the cursor concept He asked about -818 and to expalin some more time related errors. Explained -180 and -181 Now he came on COBOL asked me to explain all available PIC level diff betwen cOMP1 and COMP2 where do we define file structure and where do we declare it tell me some of the control blocks and explain Finally he was done and after 10 mins I got the result thet I was selected for HR round HR round was just a formality to discuss the salary...And finally I became part of HSBC GLT. Hope this information will be worth for some of you... All the best...CHEERS!!!! diff betwen dynamic call and static calll JCL Don't remember much CICS tell me some cotrol tables what is FCT and DCT diff between TDQ and TSQ which one is faster among TDQ and TSQ relation between TDQ and DCT

Aptitude Test Technical Interview HR Interview

Aptitude Test : - This consist of 4 sections . English :dammed easy section , based on 10th std grammar like fill in the blanks, prepositions, find similar words etc.. 2 passages r given , very very easy (dont neglect it) Analytical reasoning : This is also very easy part. It consist of most of the questions on binary to decimal conversion If u know this u easily solve this. Verbal reasoning : most easy part. Dont use u r mind. Only concentrate carefully on the question & u get the correct answer. Conditions were given like Mark 1 if 1st and 2nd is the same Mark 2 if 1st and 3rd is the same Mark 3 if 2nd and 3rd is same Mark 4 if none of these Sample question 1111.234 1111.237 Answer :- 2

1111.234

Technical (based on c and ds) I suggest u guys that plz go throw the c,c++,& the most imp Data structure. They ask que. On sorting , linklist,quee,stack etc.so friends the time for written exam is 1hr 40 min which is hell lot of time. I cleared the appiti & wait for tech intrv. Tech interview They ask me Person : tell me abt urself. Me: bla bla Person : which is ure fav. Sub. Me : c,c++,dbms Person : tell me abt RDBMS. Me : told Person : wht is ASP & its use. Me : told Person : current project Me : explained Person : hobbies Me: told Then my intrv. is over . it takes up to 15 min They mostly looking for knowledge of java ,dbms, c, c++, ds then after i was told to leave.......AND FRIENDS I WAS NOT SELECTED..... then it's the hr round:- same boring hr questions but do prepare well.....and be fluent in ur comm skill AND B CONFIDENT WITH UR ANSWERS. Some question r <!--[if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->void pointers r a . b

c. generic (ans) d . <!--[if !supportLists]-->2. <!--[endif]-->do the insertion sort on 354765 (dont remember opt) a.. b. c. d. same asked for bubble sort 3. some link list prog r given & find the out put.(sorry dont remember) 4 . some I remember is If % is use as -, * is used as +, - is used as % then 6*5%-2 = blab la Four ques on this type 5. convert 1100100 to base 10 (decimal) 4 to 5 ques on this type. So b prepped for appti & PI and wish for me that i also get placed some where.... Rock the world Guys Hope this information will b usefull to All u Guys cause HSBC is recruting in gr8 numbers.. This is how the whole selection procedure was 1) Aptitude+Technical written test 2) Technical Interview 3) H.R Interview The Aptitude comprised of Verbal reasoning, Quants, Analytical Reasoning.The technical had C&C++ and DBMS. In verbal they had Fill in the blanks,Rcs and Give the closest meaning. Verbal was quite easy though the reading passages were a bit tuff but still not that hard either. For Quants a bit of brushing of basics is really going to help, they asked questions like two trains moving in each direction etc. The analytical reasoning was the easiest of all. In Technical they concentrated more on the programs of C&C++ like a program and then depending on that the errors which can pop up while execution. Out of 2000 students 250 cleared the Apptitude. Then came the technical interview,dis is how it went 1)Tell me something about Yourself? Told 2)What is the difference between C nd C++? told 3)Why is C++ called the oops Language? Oops..Dont Know..told about encapsulation,abstratction etc...she looked quite satisfied. and then came the programs... 4)given a set of 10 numbers write a program which is going to choose numbers which only end with 3(not 6,9) and then add them.then Select numbers which start wid 9 and add them after that subtract the sum of both...Took a bit of time but wrote.She was happy.

5)Given a set of numbers wap so as to pick a number which is a perfect square. 6)Wap for a palyndrome( Eg DAD) 7)WAP to take a number from the user (any digits) seperate the digits and add the squares of the digits. 8)WAP on Bubble sort using Pointes. well those were the programs though they were easy it took a bit of pain to re call the logic of each nd every program. She didnt asked a thing on DBMS. After around 4 hrs the technical results were declared and I got through then came HR interview,nd dis is how that went HR-Sorry for making you wait this long( The time was 8 30 pm-The actual time was 9 AM of day 2) Ray- No,probs sir. HR-ok,tell me something about ur profile Ray-Said HR-OK Good..Now what are your career Goals and how are you planning to achieve them Ray-Said HR-Stress a bit more on your skills Ray-Comm skills,Team player and PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY HR-what do u mean by problem solving ability(PSA)? Ray-Said HR-Give one example where in ur PSA was utilised Ray-made one and said..lol HR-why HSBC?? Ray-Said HR-What you know abt HSBC?? Ray-HSBC-Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Co-operation. It has its branches in 82 countries. It work in various domains like Data warehousing,Mainframes etc. It is an Industry in Itself HR-You got any questions for me?? Ray-Yep..asked one. HR-OKay..Ray Thankyou. Ray-My pleasure... This is how it went and after 2 hrs the result was declared and BOY..my name was actually there..and I was so happy... The pay package which dey offered was hmmm... well..am not suppose to say that. My advice to all is They are concentrating more on your comm skills, so be sure that in both ur HR nd TEch interview ur FLUENT dont stammer aruond and make sure what ur talking makes sense because specially in HR there was lot of Cross questioning. HSBC doesnt have any BOND process so with the pay package and the scope which it has it definelty one of the best companies around to work for.

1.English(The easiest section-fill in the blanks of prepositions,readin compre. was also too easy 2.Analytical reasoning. 3.Verbal reasoning. 4.Technical aptitude.(C,C++,Data Structure and analysis of algorithms). Total 90 Questiones were there almost 1Hr 30 mins time. No sectional cut off.No negative marking for each section they used to give 20-30 mins (varied depending on sections). aptitude was on paper. but then too they will give 20 mins only for every section coz after every 20 mins they used to take the previous sections Q paper back. its easy but to be on the better side u should study for technical atleast. i cleared apti and went for technical intrview. my interviewer was a very cool guy,he was wearing jeans and T-shirt Long hair Like MS dhoni. me : May i come in sir.(u should always ask !) sir : Yes please. he told me to sit me :Good afternoon sir. sir :Good afternoon. he went through my resume in few seconds and... sir :Tell me about urself ROHAN. me :Answered this qstn for almost 5-7 mins.spoke many many things about me !This is the questn where u can impress any of the interviewers in the world.Just be urself.DOnt show him that u r nervous. rather make that interview a discussion sort of thing. sir :Whats ur BE project. me:explained everything about my project. sir :asked me qstns on C,C++(very simple). (never mention any programming language by urself they will ask u deep qstns one of my frnd said"I know java" and he was screwed in java and got rejected!) me :answered every qstn. sir :So ROHAN ur project is in Database right?(And he started asking qstns from SQL,DBMS.) me :answered every qstns with confidence. (by luck he asked everything which i was knowing so nowhere i went wrong.) sir :ok ROHAN thats it.Do u have any qstns? me :asked three qstns. sir :answered my qstns. me :complemented his style. sir:Thank u ROHAN. me :thank u sir.Nice talking wid u sir. few mins later i was told that i m selected for the next HR round !!!! i filled a form given by them and at 5.00pm i went for the HR interview. the recruitment happened in our clg campus on 5th april 2007....more n 200 students of two clg appeared.... criteria is the same as other companies 60+ % in both 10th 12th and eng(strictly)...

written xam of hsbc is probably the easiest in comparison of other firms..... the test consists 4 sections:1.English-xtremely easy for jst an ang student a) prepositionsb) fill in the blanks with similar meaningc) fill in the blank using article d) two RC passages-friends u wont get such an easy passage in any other exam.so dont neglect it u can solve it easily(believe me) 2 Analytical reasoning: is i will say was a mixed bag for me,but u can easily solve reqired no. of questions a) a pussle with 5 related questions.... b) other puzzle which was a bit confusin(so i was in real difficulty solvin both puzzles) c) data sufficiency(easy as usual) d) a decimal to binary conversion,u shud be aquainted with this type of question(asked in many other companies paper) 3) Verbal reasoning:a)conditions were given like mark 1 if 1st and 2nd is the same mark 2 if 1st and 3rd is the same mark 3 if 2nd and 3rd is same mark 4 if none of these sample question 1234 1237 1234 answer:- 2 b) sorry boss cant remember but was the easiest section 4) Techinical based on c and ds dis is a bit tough for non-it guys bt even for it/cs the code snippets r real mind teaser.bt do c all sorting methods in ds they ask questions from sorting......so u can easily do it and i guess 50% is the cutoff as i solved 12 outof 20 and was sure only in 10q. so friends the time for written exam is 1hr 40 min which is hell lot of time. out of 230 120 students cleared written den comes technical round as they say but they can also ask u complete hr questions:my interview:hr-tell abt urself? me:-told blah blah,den i said i m man with values(was interrupted) hr- he asked me wat do i mean by values? me-told(hr seemed impressed........) hr-tell me a situation when u found urself in trouble and how u came out of it? me:-told with some real life example....(hr said gooooooood)

hr-do u feel u need to improve urself? me-told yes and justified. hr-okay tell me about ur hobbies?????? me-told hr-okay wat r ur favourite subjects? me-c/c++,ds,sql,dbms,os hr-tell me about foreign key and primary key? me-told hr-gave me two table to find out primary and foreign key? me-solved(again he told good) hr-tell me about normalization? me-told. hr-can we say a table in 3nf is completely normalized? me-told no,as bcnf came into existence after 3nf just to remove trivial fd in a table already in 3nf..... hr-can a primary key has duplicate values? me-told no(distinct constraint) hr-wat abt foreign key??????? me-dis was the first answer which i told wrong(do concentrate on these small things) hr-okay pranay do u have any questions? me-i asked three questions? he-u can wait outside? me-handshaked and told it was nice talking to him.... then after five minutes i was told to leave.......AND FRIENDS I WAS NOT SELECTED..... i was never nervous in entire interview and told all answers confidently even he complimented abt my tech knowledge apart from last q where i fumbled(as dat question was asked later).....bt i did a blunder as i told wrong name of the bank (told hdbc instead of hsbc and when he told me i again told it as hdfc) the first time it was slip of tongue but once the tension build up i lost my mind(hehe..it first ever interview i faced)...bt dear friend ur one wrong answer can change ur whole impression so don do dis stupidity............ then it's the hr round:same boring hr questions but do prepare well.....and be fluent in ur comm skill one thing is that it's 99% luck to get a job......if once day is urs u can make it without knowing anything.....(hehe don rely on dis completely) finaly 29 was selected from my clg and 9 from the odr one..... so do prepare well and wish for me dat i also get placed some where.... 1)simple English (was very simple with prepostions...etc) **BE STRONG WITH GRAMMAR BASICS*** 5ques---prepositions

5ques--some synonyms 10 ques--and also technical 2 comprehension paragraphs 2)Aptitude test (RS Agarwal) 5ques---Venn diagram 5ques--Cubes 5ques--data sufficiency 3)Analytical (simple) 5questions a)12333333 12333333333 123333333 which are same in above ?? just like this very simple 5 questions time consuming part comes here b) + stands for % ,* stands for ^ ,,,etx solve 6%4^5?? etc 5 questions c)RS Agarwal question types like selection procedure of a candiadte based on some constraints 3)Technical Questions Some basic questions iin C and C++ **(YASWANT KANETKAR EXPLORING C IS BEST)** and also some questions on sorting techniques selection sort,..etc INTERVIEW TECHNICAL: he was very jovial guy of all my interviews.I thought he was HR for upto end as that he asked me very very general questions he had a walk with me during interview time in the balcony he asked me 1)how is the college?? 2)what u do to sell the college to me?? 3)he took me into room where all the students were waiting for interview and asked wat qualities are required for those ppl to get interviewd 4)later finally we went to interviewers room there he said to sit in his chair and he was sitting in thebench opposite to me and asked 1)wat r qualities required for writing good program?? 2)wat u would do in testing?? later he said me that hes impressed by my performance and sent me to HR round HR he was very starigh forward person 1)tell me abt urself?? 2)he asked abt HSBC i told him all the history ...etc abt logo,founder..etc 3)he asked me wat is GLT i couldnot answer , said that i didnot find it in HSBC website whie i was browsing came out and

the person near door called me and sent me to a room where i filled up the form and results were annonced at around 8:30 Regarding the written test- the paper was damn easy and if a student has good knowledge of English and maths he can easily qualify the wriiten. The test consisted of 4-sections 1. GENERAL ENGLISH ( PREPOSITIONS, FILL IN THE BLANKS ETC) 20 QUES IN 20 MIN 2. REASONING (R.S.AGARWAL VERBAL ND NON VERBAL REASONING WILL B SUFFICIENT.) 30 QUES IN 3O MINS 3. APTITUDE (R.S. AGARWAL QUANTITATIVE APTI. WILL DO IT.)20 OUES IN 20 MINS 4. DATA STRUCTURE, C, C++ (THIS IS TOTAL TECHNICAL ND A PERSON SHOULD HAVE GOOD KNOWLEDGE FOR THIS). 20 QUES IN 30 MIN THERE WAS NO NEGATIVE MARKING NO UPPER CUTOFF AND NO LOWER CUTOFF. THE MAJOR FACTOR WAS TIME MANAGEMENT. FROM 200 STUDENT 83 CLEARED THE WRITTEN AND I WAS THE 1 OF THEM. THEN COMES THE TECHNICAL INTERVIEW ROUND. HERE THE PERSON SHOULD REMAIN VERY COOL, NERVOUSNESS CAN KILL U AS IT WAS IN MY CASE. THEY CHECK UR BODY LANG. UR CONFIDENCE LEVEL AND MORE IMPORTANT IF THEY CHANGE LANG OTHER THEN ENGLISH THEN PLZ.. DONT ANSWER IN THAT LANG. U CARRY UR ANSWERS IN ENGLISH ONLY. THE PERSONS WHO CLEARS THE T.I ROUND WAS GIVEN A FORM TO FILL UP THE FORM FOR H.R INTERVIEW. REMEMBER 1 THING THAT T.I and H.R ROUND CAN GO SIMULTANEOUSLY SO U HAV TO B WELL PREPARED FOR THAT MENTALLY. FROM 83 STUDENTS 55 REACHED THE HR ROUND AND FINALY 39 WERE SELECTED. I WAS NOT SELECTED AS I BECOME NERVOUS AND GAVE 1 OR 2 WRONG ANSWERS, SO I WOULD REQUEST ALL THOSE WHO WILL APPEAR FOR INTERVIEW THAT NEVER BECOME NERVOUS REMAIN COOL AND KEEP A SMILING FACE AND B CONFIDENT WITH UR ANSWERS.
Aptitude Test : This consist of 4 sections . English :dammed easy section , based on 10th std grammar like fill in the blanks, prepositions, find similar words etc.. 2 passages r given , very very easy (dont neglect it) Analytical reasoning : This is also very easy part. It consist of most of the questions on binary to decimal conversion If u know this u easily solve this. Verbal reasoning : most easy part. Dont use u r mind. Only concentrate carefully on the question & u get the correct answer. Conditions were given like Mark 1 if 1st and 2nd is the same Mark 2 if 1st and 3rd is the same

Mark 3 if 2nd and 3rd is same Mark 4 if none of these Sample question 1111.234 1111.237 Answer :- 2

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Technical (based on c and ds) I suggest u guys that plz go throw the c,c++,& the most imp Data structure. They ask que. On sorting , linklist,quee,stack etc so friends the time for written exam is 1hr 40 min which is hell lot of time.I cleared the appiti & wait for tech intrv. Tech interview They ask me Person : tell me abt urself. Me: bla bla Person : which is ure fav. Sub. Me : c,c++,dbms Person : tell me abt RDBMS. Me : told Person : wht is ASP & its use. Me : told Person : current project Me : explained Person : hobbies Me: told Then my intrv. is over . it takes up to 15 min . They mostly looking for knowledge of java ,dbms, c, c++, ds. then after i was told to leave.......AND FRIENDS I WAS NOT SELECTED..... then it's the hr round:-same boring hr questions but do prepare well.....and be fluent in ur comm skill AND B CONFIDENT WITH UR ANSWERS. Some question are 1.void pointers are a . b c. generic (ans) d . 2. do the insertion sort on 354765 (dont remember opt) a.. b. c. d. same asked for bubble sort 3.some link list prog r given & find the out put.(sorry dont remember) 4.some I remember is If % is use as -, * is used as +, - is used as % then 6*5%-2 = blab la Four ques on this type 5.convert 1100100 to base 10 (decimal) 4 to 5 ques on this type. I had aptitude test on 25th september....nearly 200 students appeared from four colleges....out of which 110 wer short listed for the next round....that is technical round. from tech 50 wer directed to HR...and finally 28 got thro....and thank god m one among them.....

APTITUDE: We had merit trac question paper.....ie: Merit trac is an institute which has a standard pattern of questions...and it wil be moreover same for the companies to which thy conduct.....for their clients details log on to www.merittrac.com aps had 4 parts.... 1.verbal. it was very easy....it jus contain preposition,articles(use of a,an,the) and 2 comprehention..... basic eng knowledge is enough to crack it.... 2.Aptitude. it contains general maths.....no R.S.Agarval or any book.... u jus be through wit venn diagram concepts....and data sufficiency ques.... 3.Attention to details. this was the easiest part in the aps.... the ques will be.. a)44556667.88774 b)44556667.88774 c)4455667.88774 which are alike? a&b,b&c,a&c,none.... 4 to 5 ques will be der of silmilar way. next few ques wer of this pattern.... + is -,* is /,- is * and / is + 45+5*3/7-9 = ? ther will be four option given..... we hav to use BODMAS rule here to find the ans...... and comprehention of recruitment process also wil be given. 4.technical. here c/c++/algorithm/data structures plays a role......be prepared dat too.....since m Electronics student i had no idea abt it.... aps results wer out after two days and i had tech interview on 29th sep..... 10 people wer arrived from pune and thy started the interview in 15 mins..... TECH INTERVIEW: my tech interviewer was very cool person....the ques asked wer.... Tech Int(TI): arif,wats ur strength? TI: wats ur weakness? TI: wats a role of team player? TI: wat r the languages u knw? TI: wats ur favourite sub in electronics? i told microprocessor. TI: wat s 8085? TI: wat s 8255,82....83....?i forgot the IC nos and i havent heard those nos too.....i told him...sir,i did not study about those processors in my syllabus.... TI: how will u interface 8085 wit 8255? TI: wat is op-amp? TI: draw the circuit diagram of insrumental amplifier? TI: okay,u can leave. for the first two ques i was little nervous....at that time i thought i wont get thro tech interview....and after that i jus apoke wit confident.....if i dint know the answer i told him politely i dont know sir.... and its maily depends on the panel which u go....luckily i got thro tech.... HR: here there wer 2 panels.....the HR ques wer... HR: tell me abt urself? bla..bla.... HR: why do nwdays people prefer IT companies? i jus stressed on the respect given in IT comp.... HR: any ques? i asked abt the sensex fall will affect a software engg..... HR: thak u... u can leave. here i was very confident and dat fetched me a job in HSBC......and and think for a second before u answer..... when i stepped out of the door...a form was given and thy told i was selected....... guys...u knw this was my 14th company and i got thro.....be confident and hav faith in god.....only he can help us.... every1 is havin a day and dat can be given only by god....... dont lose ur hope........meet u in HSBC....

Procedure: 1)Aptitude Test 2)Technical Interview 3)HR Interview Aptitude Test: It has 4 Subsection and each has its own time I wont reccomend any book as test is different, but if u hav solved verbal, Analytical, qunatitativ stuff then not big deal 1) English ......................prepositions,articles, Errors..,Meaning of words..find match etc.. 2)Analtical Resoning....... if + is %, - is # then evaluate expression type.. 3)Qunatitative................Data Sufficiency.. 4)Technical.................... C and Data Structure..pointers(Function pointers, pointers to arry), Sorting(complexity, algo.) Trees. Technical Interview was Focused on Basics of SQL, C, Data Sructures.. HR Interview---just about u..