I applied online. I interviewed at HCLTech (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2015
Interview
We were more than 50 people for the interview event and we waited for about 30-1hour in the waiting room and we were called to come inside and took the paper exam divided in to three rooms and after we completed the exam we went back to the waiting room and after about 30min two stuff come and called our name that they choose and thank to other who didn't make it. Our group, the first, 10am, was there for this one position. Started off with everyone taking a quick multiple choice basic code/skills test, some got picked off. Then a quick writing/introduction test, more were eliminated. Easy so far.… There was paper exam to evaluate your skills. It covers from core java to open source technologies like spring and hibernate, servlets type questions.The hiring and interview process takes like 3-5 hours. First there was paper exam to evaluate your skills and knowledge about the subject.Once you pass the exam or be chosen to proceed with the hiring and interview process, there is one to one interview with recruiters. There was paper exam to evaluate your skills. It covers from core java to open source technologies like spring and hibernate, servlets type questions.The hiring and interview process takes like 3-5 hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
-Can a class be final?
- Difference between Application context and bean factory?
I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HCLTech (Noida) in May 2016
Interview
Around 250 candidates reached for interview from 3-9 year of experienace. They have only 4-5 interview panel.
Senior candidates asked them to filter by written test but they did not listen
Till 4 PM hiring team was thinking how to process these many resources.
I had two Technical face to face rounds.
First round was completely technical and they ased Java basics
polymorphism, spring, data structures , multithreading.
Took a lot of time as a lot of people were there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data structures
What is an array.
Program for searching in array
code for singelton class
serialization
autowiring