HCL Software Engineer interview experience (2023)

HCL Software Engineer interview experience

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NoidaPosted Jun 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying for a Software Engineer role, I went through a technical interview that leaned heavily into lower-level concepts and C/C++-style fundamentals, with no long detours.

The questions were pretty specific: setting a particular bit, memory layout, and how structures and unions work. I also got pulled into my project work, and then the conversation moved into compilation details.

The most distinctive part was that it didn’t stay “generic software” for long. I had questions connecting UART with SPI and I2C, and then we covered interrupts and interrupt latency. Overall it felt straightforward in difficulty—more like targeted checking of understanding than trick questions—and I left feeling like I’d handled the technical depth they wanted.

I ultimately got an

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HCL Software Engineer interview experience

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