HCL Tech Software Engineer interview experience

The first step was a skills screen where the focus stayed close to my background—what I’d worked on recently, which parts of a project I’d owned, and the technologies I’d actually used. After that, the technical portion moved into basics-first questions and short coding prompts. Depending on the round, it leaned toward core data structures and Java concepts, and sometimes it also pulled in Spring Boot or higher-level project architecture discussions.

What surprised me was how often the conversation anchored to the resume rather than totally abstract theory. I remember being asked to explain