HHCL Tech·Software Engineer

HCL Tech Software Engineer interview experience

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TaguigPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a very intense live technical interview that lasted about an hour and forty-five minutes.

The session involved a sequence of questions and answers with a panel of six lead developers, and then it shifted into a live coding portion using a Coderbyte-style format.

The coding segment took up a full hour by itself, so the pacing was demanding—there was little time to recover if I got stuck. The earlier part was also hard because the panel moved quickly through technical questions, and the whole vibe felt more like a real-time technical discussion than a slower, structured interview.

I didn’t receive an offer, but the format itself made it clear they were testing stamina as much as

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