HCL·Software Engineer

HCL Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

IndiaPosted Aug 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After clearing the initial stage, I moved into technical discussions that took a lot of time and effort.

Each technical conversation lasted close to an hour, and they leaned on fundamentals moving from basics toward more advanced topics. The overall difficulty felt like they were checking how far I could go, not just whether I knew the definitions.

What made the experience frustrating was the outcome and the communication around it. Even after I shared my expectations up front, I didn’t get selected, and it left me feeling like the process consumed time without a clear payoff. There was also a sense of pressure in how things were run—at one point it felt like the interviewer was in a hurry, and

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