I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Dell Technologies (Bengaluru)
Interview
First of all, I had a telephonic call from the HR asking about my expertise, experience on different skills,availability etc. Then I received a call from the technical team after 2 days and there was a telephonic interview for 45 minutes. Post that, I had a face to face technical round for about an hour at the Bangalore office. I was told to wait for 30 minutes and then they put me to the management round on the same day. I had a first review with Senior manager and then he forwarded me in another 45 minutes to Senior Director for the Business Unit. Everything went well and I was done fore the day. They contacted me after couple of days and informed me that they are working on the offer process, which took about 2 weeks.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
They asked my previous project architecture, product capabilities and challenges that i faced while working on that company.
process is simple and not that hard. 2-3 technical round and 1 hr round. culture has spoiled a bit due to AI adoption and job security is uncertain. team members are cooperative
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Dell Technologies (Bengaluru) in Oct 2025
Interview
After shortlisting HR scheduled a virtual first round.
Interviewer was from US and very polite. He asked briefly about my previous projects. Then, discussed about kernel concepts and also some core embedded concepts.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Rotate an image by 90 degrees, in place. I was supposed to do in O(n) time.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Dell Technologies (Bengaluru) in Sep 2025
Interview
Position: DevOps Lead
A tasteless and disrespectful process. Got in-person invite for Managerial and Architectural rounds at Bengaluru office 2:00 PM.
Reached the spot 15 mins prior and completed formalities. At 02:10PM someone escorted to interview place.
Sr Manager showed up by 2:25 all setup done to kick start.
Question: what is current role and day to day activities?
Answered.
Question2: what do u do as part of current role on daily basis?
Answered.
Other interviewer joins in room, starts scrolling through phone, 1 min silence interviewer1 to interviewer2 ask some questions,
interviewer2 ask first question before I could answer interview1 (whose team I was suppose to join) go for lunch (time 2:35).
Interviewer 2 asks few more questions like how DB is implemented since I am part of DB organization I clarify I am not from DB team but he insists saying since I am from org X I must know DB. One more question and he goes out to search someone (2:40PM) he comes back at 02:45PM and says process is over they will get back.
So technically 20 mins of total interview for which I had travel for 1.5hr, just coz they didnt had their lunch they wrapped up stuff. All this time their behavior was as if I self invited myself for interview. No respect for other's time or even the person.
Dell Technologies interviews FAQs
Principal Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Dell Technologies with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 72% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Principal Software Engineer roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 18 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Dell Technologies overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Dell Technologies as a Principal Software Engineer according to 18 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 20%
One on one interview: 19%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 13%
Presentation: 7%
Background check: 7%
Personality test: 7%
Drug test: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 1%
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