HCL·Software Engineer

HCL Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Jun 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

When I interviewed at HCL, the technical rounds felt centered on core concepts across programming and infrastructure-adjacent topics.

I ran into questions that tested basics and definitions—things like networking and cyber security fundamentals, including what firewalls do and how TCP/IP fits into the picture. On top of that, there were hands-on OOP-style questions: exception handling, arrays, strings, and deeper OOP concepts.

In the rounds focused more on C/C++-style thinking, I was asked about multithreading, common data structures like linked lists, queues, and stacks, and even details like pointers and null pointer behavior. There were also questions that probed inheritance and polymorphism with examples, which made

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