I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at HCLTech (Chennai) in Jul 2012
Interview
I forwarded my resume through my known contacts. I was called for first round of interview at their Bangalore office for a short interview of 30 minutes duration by a panel of interview team. They asked me to come for another round of interview at Chennai. I was called for interview at Chennai after a week. . This interview went for 2 to 3 hours. Initial verification documents by HR/admin team took about 30 minutes. Then, I had HR interview for about 15 minutes. Then , I had technical reviews by one of the Senior Manager (Who became my boss on joining) and the Technical Head of the Facility. This technical interview was conducted for multiple rounds focussing on specific aspects of the Technology like, C, Real Time Computing, Device Drivers, Database, Application Programming and APIs. After these multiple rounds, I was informed that I'll be informed of the result over post in a couple of days. However, they hinted me that my chances of getting in are bright.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. C data strucutres, Pointers, handling pointers, Memory mapping
2. Various forms of IPCs, System calls, IO processes
3. File structure, File handling, device handlers
4. Key concepts in Real Time Programming, paging, swapping
5. Unix CLIs, Pipes
6. Network Programming interfaces, Socket programming
7. Memroy heaps, Memory allocation, memory leaks
8. Parameter passing, interfacing C & Fortan and Assembly language codes.
9. Basics of Database, SQL, RDBMS,
10. APIs, Defining APIs, use of APIs
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at HCLTech (Mumbai) in Apr 2016
Interview
Everything was handled well. I had been to few interviews earlier was frustrated with the process however at HCL they handled all the crowd pretty well. There were 2 rounds, 1 was general and the other one was with Senior PM. Questions asked were relevant to Job profile.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Current projects handled
3. Any technical certifications done
4. How to create project Plan on MSP
5. Since i had done Prince2, they questioned me about Prince 2 princicples/processes and stuff
6. If handled a team, any client interactions, end user connection etc
Call from HR for telephonic round, continues with face to face technical round , then telephonic 2 round and then HR . Final call is for salary negotiation. Then Offer whole process took more than 30 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Project management past responsibilities and experience.