I applied online. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at HCL (Redmond, WA) in Sep 2018
Interview
Extremely unprofessional, a recruiter kept rescheduling my interview at last moment and at the end when he eventually find time to take it, I was supposed to get a Skype call and instead he called me and said I am away from my system, Can we have a phone call and I said alright and He asked all SQL questions to me, Although the job description was for .NET development. I was irritated by him the way he was asking questions was like he was trying to demotivate me. Like for few answers , I started with It might or I guess and he was like you never did this before, you don't know it that's why your are saying might be etc. which is really not cool, his accent was Indian and very poorly communicating when asking question, I wish you train your interviewers well before asking them to interview because it should be nice and making interviewee comfortable and should not be like somebody is interrogating you. It sucks to have interviews with such people, It shows that the company itself is so unprofessional and employees are that arrogant
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Temp tables and Views, How to write a query for two tables present in different databases in different servers? Why Stored procedure? Etc.
Interview Level is Easy. they first ask Question related to oops concept and then some core java question. After that in the second round they ask question from Spring boot.
Interview was nice and very much structured .Questions were generally from core concepts of CS. Also There were 2 rounds in interview , Hr and Technical. It was very neutral process . it was neither hard nor easy . It was moderate.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at HCL (Noida) in Aug 2025
Interview
The interview process is a multi-step procedure employers use to assess a candidate's suitability for a job, starting with resume screening and typically moving through phone or video interviews, assessments, and final in-person interviews. The process helps
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at HCL with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 33 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HCL overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HCL as a Software Engineer according to 33 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 20%
Phone interview: 14%
Presentation: 13%
Background check: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Drug test: 9%
Skills test: 9%
Other: 7%
Personality test: 7%
Group panel interview: 3%
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