• Reported structure (prep-site reports, not HSBC): five tiles done in order, Project Kick-Off, Global Engagement, Data Monitoring, Navigating Competing Commitments and Pause and Reflect, with about 38 questions in total.
• Reported question counts by tile: 4, 4, 10, 9 and 11. About 16 questions in all are cognitive (data interpretation, verbal, inductive) and about 22 are situational judgement or work-style. How these split across tiles 3 and 4 is not published, so that split is our estimate.
• Reported response styles: tables, graphs and text for the cognitive questions, and ranking or rating several actions for the judgement questions. The final tile also includes work-style statements with no right answer.
• HSBC does not say the simulation is timed. Here your time is recorded, you cannot go back, and a calculator is offered on the two data tiles only.
• The real simulation also includes video, audio and voicemail clips, which this replica does not. Every scenario, figure and statement here is original and the company and people are invented.