HSBC Software Developer interview questions

Technical (I am from non-CS background so I was asked different variety of questions): 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Tell me about the projects you did. 3. Tell me about how you would approach a problem if you are working alone on a weekend and no one is there to help you. 4. Tell me the difference between Java and C. 5. What is Data Scrapping? 6. What is Data Analytics? 7. What is difference between them? 8. Explain Hadoop and MapReduce in detail. 9. What is Cloud Computing? 10. Difference between IaaS, PaaS, SaaS 11. What is Big Data? How is it different from traditional data. Give example. 12. How big data can be used in banking sector? 13. What is machine learning? Give example. 14. Do you know about DBMS? Write five SQL commands. 15. Do you know about OS? What is paging? Write five Linux commands. 16. What is the difference between Java and C? 17. Explain Polymorphism. 18. Any questions for us? HR (Easier and relaxed): 1. You are from a non-CS background then why IT field? 2. Why didn't you change branch in first year? 3. How many companies you sat for interview till now? Why not selected yet? 4. Why leave a metro city and come to a smaller city for college? 5. Why is the number of girls is less in engineering colleges? 6. What do you do on your weekdays and weekends? 7. How do you chill on your weekends? 7. What is your location preference? 8. How do you feel that your friends are placed and you are not yet placed? 9. Any questions for us?