HCLTech·Software Engineer

HCLTech Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

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BengaluruPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went in expecting a technical screen that leaned heavily toward mobile Android, and that’s exactly what happened.

My first round covered Kotlin and a lot of Android fundamentals: questions touched data binding, native crashes, and ANRs, plus activity lifecycle concepts. I also got asked about coroutines, Hilt, MVVM, Room database basics, SQL, view binding, and even how variable declaration and scope work.

The round felt average in difficulty and very focused—less on open-ended system design and more on whether I understood how Android components behave and how common architecture pieces fit together. I didn’t receive an offer afterward, but the interview felt like it was measuring whether my day-to-day

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