HCLTech·Software Engineer

HCLTech Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Positive

IsraelPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly standard HCLTech sequence with assessments and two coding-style rounds, and it felt fair overall over about 1–2 weeks.

Assessment & communication — a short introduction to set context, then aptitude/communication-style screening before moving on.
Coding tasks — two programming questions: one to implement binary search on a sorted array, and another in Python to measure function execution time using a wrapper/decorator.
Technical interview + HR wrap-up — a final round covering basic-to-medium technical topics and an HR discussion focused on company policy/behavioral questions.
Outcome: I didn’t end up with an offer, but the process felt organized and the difficulty was manageable when I

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