HCL Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
Based on 37 interview experiences · FREE TO READ
Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at HCL.
HCL
Engineer
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Other
The first interview was with a coordinator who said it was a coordination role and all technical work would be done in India. The second interviewer was really rude and unprofessional, kept talking about being an 'expert' and asking me to rate myself from 1 to 10. Honestly, what's the point of subjective questions like that? This company seems to want to hire people for free, without paying them what they deserve. They also post fake and misleading job ads that don't match the actual job spec. If the role is just coordination, why list so many technical skills that aren't even needed? Their hiring and recruitment practices are unethical.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Tell me about your expertise and rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10.
HCL
Lead Engineer
Lead Average Positive experience Accept offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen Recruiter call
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
I went for a Walk-in interview in Hyderabad at Hi-tech city. It was a 3-round process: Tech-1, Tech-2, and HR. Tech-1 involved discussing my past projects, the algorithms I used, and OOPS concepts like polymorphism, abstraction, virtual, static, friend, and exception handling, along with some logical C programming questions. Tech-2 was a high-level discussion about projects, focusing on design choices and why certain methods were preferred over others, along with OOPS concepts and logical C programming.
Confirmed questions5 questions
- Can you tell me about your projects and any logical programs you've written, such as factorial?
- Could you explain dynamic memory allocations using both new and malloc?
- What are function pointers?
HCL
NOC Engineer
Mid Easy Positive experience Accept offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
The client round with HCL was pretty tough for their recruitment process. My client round wasn't too easy. The competition here isn't usually super high, but you'll face some skilled applicants. So, it often comes down to selling your skills and knowledge to the recruiters. This is what decides the winner.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Can you explain the OSI Model?
- Are you capable of working in a hectic environment?
HCL Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from HCL interview reports.
“What's the difference between static functions and static variables?”
Read reports →“What is the difference between throw and throws?”
Read reports →“What is the purpose of the 'new' keyword in C++?”
Read reports →“What's the difference between an interface and an abstract class?”
Read reports →“Can you explain the internal structure of a HashMap?”
Read report →“Can you write the code for a B+Tree?”
Read report →“What do you understand by collections in Java?”
Read report →“What are the different ways to create a thread?”
Read report →“Could you explain dynamic memory allocations using both new and malloc?”
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