Banking - Advisory - Summer Analyst (IBD)

Status
Intern at
Group/Division/Type
Mergers and Acquisitions
City
London
Interviewed
November 2015
Overall experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average

General Interview Information

Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
2-3 months

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Personality Test
Background Check
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
Step 1: Online application
- 4 long and time-consuming competency questions. Very important to take the time to answer these well otherwise direct ding. A good place to start is the strategic/annual report.

*Online questions screening*

Step 2: Testing
- If successful at the online application, invite to a Situational Judgement Test where you have to say which of the options is least/most effective (quite hard and very focussed on integrity situations, SHL, untimed)
- If successful, invite to a logical reasoning test (normal difficulty, SHL, 24 questions 20 minutes)

*HR screening*

Step 3: Phone interview
- 45-60 minutes long. Conducted by outsourced specialist typing your responses. Entirely motivational/competency based. Very important to link examples back to HSBC's values.
- If successful, you get an email indicating you've met the benchmark within a couple of hours/half a day and your CV/Application/Test scores are forwarded to the business

*Business screening*

Step 4: Assessment Centre
- Case study
- Group task
- 2 interviews
- If successful, offer within a couple of hours
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