HCLTech·Software Engineer

HCLTech Software Engineer interview experience

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Bangalore RuralPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview experience centered on Java and related backend topics, and it felt like a real technical screen rather than just project storytelling.

I first went through questions covering core Java and common ecosystem concepts. I was asked about Java language details and features, including exception handling concepts and version-related Java features, and then it moved into concurrency topics like multithreading basics.

From there, the questions shifted toward practical implementation choices: how to build a thread-safe singleton and how to reason about it, plus some coding exercises using streams like reversing a list and ordering employees based on fields. They also brought in database expectations, including writing an SQL query to

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