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Member Technical Staff at HCL Technologies

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 22, 2013 New

Interview Details There were 3 rounds, 2 technical rounds and 1 manager/HR round. Skills required were C, Networking, Linux programming. 3 rounds of interview was completed within 2 to 3 hours. The interviewer were cool and calm, not intimidating and were giving solutions for questions that I had no answer. Overall it was a good experience.

Interview Question – Writing a generic linked list   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – There was little to no negotiation for me. I could only get 30K Rs (per annum) more than I asked for.

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Senior Software Engineer at HCL Technologies

No Offer – Interviewed in Noida (India) May 2013 – Reviewed May 16, 2013 New

Interview Details Hi Guys,

I guess its my time to payback the group.

Last Saturday i had a wonder interview experience with HCL Tech Sec 60 Noida.

1st Round : Written/Programmatic
1.) Write a pseudo code for bodmass principle 5*4 + 5/5 + (9^7)
2.) Find the occurrence of word in sentence example
a. word: Sugar
b. Sentence: Some sugary Thoughts are sugar intensive or sugarExtensive.

2st Round- F2F
1.)Difference between JRE and JDK?
2.)New Features in Java 7
3.)enum : usage
4.) How to make a class singleton using Enum.
5.)What is has Code
6.) String Vs StringBuffer Vs String Builder
7.) Difference b/w equals and == method
8.) How will you skip catch block.

3RD Round – F2f with Managers
1.) Sql Query for displaying
a. Table Employee: EmployeeID,EmployeName,ManagerID
As EmployeeID,EmployeName,ManagerID,ManagerName
2.) Design Pattern: A class is generating a random number and other is calculating average continuously which DP you will apply.
3.) O/P
i. Try{
ii. Return 10;
iii. System.exit(1);
iv. Throw new Exception();
v. }
vi. Finally{
vii. Return
viii. }

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Software Engineer at HCL Technologies

No Offer – Interviewed in Rochester, NY (US) Mar 2013 – Reviewed May 15, 2013 New

Interview Details Applied through career fair in University. While submitting resume they asked me about my interest and availability. Then they gave me a paper for signing to schedule an interview on very next day in Univesity.

Interview Question – General Questions like which is most difficult project, what difficulties you had, What about team conflicts in team projects.etc.   Answer Question

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Technical Lead at HCL Technologies

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Jan 2010 – Reviewed May 14, 2013 New

Interview Details Most complicated interview process . questions tease mental ablity to solve tough technical questions. some questions are puzzle oriented . we have to tackle very hard to solve difficult questions . first time looks easy but tough to solve .

Interview Question – what is c vs c++   View Answer

Negotiation Details – no negotiataion

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Software Engineer at HCL Technologies

Declined Offer – Interviewed in Chennai (India) Sep 2012 – Reviewed May 14, 2013 New

Interview Details Hiring process of HCL for campus selection having 3 rounds
1. Technical round
2. Project round
3. HR Round

Technical round : This round was about my current project and they have asked few question on academics

Interview Question – Why do you want to join HCL   Answer Question

Reason for Declining – Payscale offered is too low, got a better offer

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Software Engineer at HCL Technologies

No Offer – Interviewed in Noida (India) – Reviewed May 13, 2013 New

Interview Details 1written and 2 technical rounds..followed by HR and Managerial round

Interview Question – Writte is all about writing two programs which r useless in professional life   Answer Question

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Software Engineer at HCL Technologies

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Chennai (India) – Reviewed May 13, 2013 New

Interview Details The first round was a written round. Basic questions in quant and english.
There was a pseudo technical HR round after a gap of a few hours in the form of a group discussion.
Third round was a straight forward technical round with questions on programming basics, college level academic projects and other personal projects.

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HCL-CISCO ODC, Member of Technical Staff at HCL Technologies

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 12, 2013 New

Interview Details I had a direct round with manager handling the project. He tested my C skills, and a little os OS concepts. He was knowledgeable person.

Interview Question – Nothing as such as i could answer all his questions. He usually stressed on Data structures   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – i asked for 5L pa.. But with a little negotiation i settled down for 4.5lpa

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Lead Engineer at HCL Technologies

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Mar 2011 – Reviewed May 10, 2013 New

Interview Details Interview process was happened for HCL client Yahoo !!
Interviewer basically are internal person who deployed at client location in my case it's yahoo consultant . There is 3 guys took my interview and finally after 1~2 month I got offer.
When I was totally confirmed that I was through the interview but I didn't got any offer and I loose hope suddenly one day I got offer coming from HR so always keep in touch with mail conversation whether you got response or not this is what HCL's HR always "Late Latif"

Interview Question – For UI perspective nothing more they ask but you should have to prepare :
HTML :- cross browser issues, box model, HTML div and other element
CSS:- CSS hacks, CSS tweaks
PHP: oops concepts
mysql: query
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Negotiation Details – Negotiation is not depends on your skills or work experience too much. The HR not gonna listen you lot . they can offer you as less as they can . even bands also like this may be lesser exp. then you get the higher band and higher position . This is what you can easily exp. in HCL . Always HR traps you in policies .

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Software Engineer at HCL Technologies

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Jun 2009 – Reviewed May 09, 2013 New

Interview Details Just learn one tool like QTP or Selenium that is enough. How you will write test cases and test scripts after recording objects. Type of objects you recorded.

Interview Question – Are you flexible with your work location   Answer Question

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