HCL Tech Software Engineer interview experience

The process had two main rounds: a technical round and a managerial one, and across both, the questions were mostly technical. The difficulty was around average, and I remember thinking that a little brushing up on skills could have made it smoother.

What weighed on me was the way the experience felt overall. Even though I answered every question, the interaction didn’t land the way I expected, and the vibe around management and culture didn’t feel good to me. At one point, there was also an odd constraint in the communication part where I was forced to write an exact number of words even