I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HCL (Hyderābād) in Dec 2017
Interview
I attended Walk-in-interview in Hyderabad at Hi-tech city. Interview is of 3 rounds, Tech-1,Tech-2 and HR.
Tech-1 : Asked about projects you did and the algorithms you have implemented in the project you been working, some oops concepts like polymorphism,abstration.. Virtual concepts,static, friend, Exception handling and some logical c programming
Tech2 : Asked about project in high level like why should we do in this method, why don't another approach. OOPS concepts..some logical c programming as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Projects, logical programs like factorial, etc.. dynamic memory allocations using new and malloc , function pointers, structure padding,storage classes
Only 1 round of technical interview, then 1 round with client. at client location. questions on Angular, javascript, SQL, framework questions, agile methodology, easy questions, all basic questions, about your current project and role and responsibilities
I applied online. I interviewed at HCL (Bangalore Rural)
Interview
It's good, question will be only from resume. Prepare it well. You can clear easily if u prepare well. Prepare your older experience also. Be confident and do well. Be good on job description.
It was a very good process which included two rounds of technical interview and one round of HR Interview. I had 27 month of work you said that time and was having issues to negotiate the salary as they have a capping for giving salary for people less than three years.
Lead Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at HCL with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Lead Engineer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HCL overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HCL as a Lead Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 22%
Background check: 22%
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 11%
Phone interview: 11%
Group panel interview: 11%
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