HCL·Full Stack Engineer

HCL Full Stack Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Edison, NJPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I joined what was billed as an onsite process, but it ran over Teams, and it immediately felt more chaotic than most technical screens I’d done.

The interview was mostly technical concept questions spread across Java, databases, caching, and Kafka. Coding questions also came up, including Stream API and singleton, plus a SQL query task.

What threw me off was the pace and the presentation: the interviewer showed up late by about 10 minutes, and the interviewer camera wasn’t on, which made the whole thing feel more disconnected. The questions also felt random and tricky, like they were probing for how well I could handle less predictable follow-ups rather than sticking to a fixed syllabus.

In terms of difficulty, it landed on the

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