I couldn’t clear the first coding round, but it turned out to be a valuable learning experience. I realized the areas I need to strengthen, especially in problem-solving and logic, and I’m now preparing more effectively for future opportunities.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at HCLTech
Interview
Interview was mainly focused on application and OOPs concept not Medium and hard DSA. They just ask some DSA and DBMS and OS. I had two interview one is for easy DSA question and another is that application and your project focused. The interview was easy to moderate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Swap two variable without using third variable
Project related questions
Hard Exception Handling and JDBC question because my background was JAVA
I applied online. I interviewed at HCLTech (Miraj) in Jul 2025
Interview
Total 5 rounds including Online Assessment, Group Discussion, Technical Interview 1&2 and HR interview. The process is bit slow it takes around 1 month to go from 1 round to next.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Difference between hashmap and hashset
Multithreading concepts: synchronisation
Difference between deep and shallow copy
What is Lambda expression
Code to find out repetitive characters in a string