HHCL Tech·Software Engineer

HCL Tech Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview track felt heavy on scenario-based DevOps and cloud design.

I had two technical rounds where the first dove into core DevOps concepts like CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins and GitLab, plus containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes. The questions also became AWS-specific, covering services like EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and EKS, with a strong troubleshooting and architecture angle.

The second technical round went deeper into architecture design and optimization, again with a troubleshooting mindset. I also got questions about Terraform as infrastructure as code—things like how you structure modules, handle variables, work with

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