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HCLTech Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 26 Feb 2025

Top HCLTech Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. what is difference between controller and rest controller?
  • Q2. What are the addon that can be added with spring boot ? What is the spring boot ? What are the ways of configuring a bean in spring? And core java realted stuff.
  • Q3. Issues faced in troubleshooting your applications and how you overcome it.
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HCLTech Senior Software Engineer Interview Experiences

111 interviews found

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
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I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Jun 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

Moderate level question from Java, Spring-boot and Microservice + they given a scenario to write an implementation for that

Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic Questions from Resume
  • Q2. Also they ask me like why are you looking for job change, etc..

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in May 2021. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. As it's a Devops role , so questions majorly from Shell scripting (scenario based questions) , Microservices architecture , k8 , Spunk querying , cloud ( AWS ).

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - If you are planning to switch to a new tech & want to appear in an interview for the same. Then apart from just learning through courses & hands-on, its crucial to connect with people who are already working on live projects based on that tech . That will give you a view on challenges & some key aspects of real projects based on that tech & that eventually gives u an extra edge in the interview.

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I applied via Approached by company and was interviewed before Feb 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. About on the platform I had worked and the technology used.
  • Q2. About life science and it's applications
Round 2 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What are your salary expectations?
  • Q2. Tell me about yourself.
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technically on the area of life science industry

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Trust yourself. Answer what you knew. Frankly tell them don't know would like to know about it if you don't know for any questions. Don't mind if you don't know the answer.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Ques related to spring, rest web services

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Average difficulty, smooth process

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I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Dec 2020. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. Java 8 features and programs like how did you sort list of employees data based on salary .
  • Q2. Microservices,SpringBoot,Jpa related question
  • Q3. Kafka configuration,how data will be streaming.
  • Ans. 

    Kafka is configured to stream data through topics and partitions.

    • Kafka uses topics to organize data streams

    • Each topic is divided into partitions for scalability

    • Producers write data to topics and consumers read from them

    • Data is stored in a distributed manner across brokers

    • Configurations include settings for replication, retention, and compression

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  • Q4. Database related.curd operations,stored procedures,joins

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Pls make sure to fit in core java question,and programs.

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I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jul 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Sql queries, joins, stored procedures, code in vb.net

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Very smooth. 3 rounds in total.

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Mar 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all Resume tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Data structures, Puzzles , Projects
Data Structures : Binary search ,reverse linkedist, reverse array, insertion sort, Time complexity of insertion sort, Selection sort.
Projects: Explain anyone project which you have mentioned in resume

Round 3 - HR 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
  • Q2. Tell me about yourself.
  • Q3. Challenges you faced in your projects.

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for HCLTech Senior Software Engineer interview:
  • Data Structures
  • Operating Systems
  • Computer Networking
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare Data Structures, Fundamentals of CS (like OS, DBMS, Computer network), anyone programming language (CPP, JAVA,PYTHON), some puzzles questions

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Oct 2021. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all Resume tips
Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

First round will be basic aptitude test asusual.

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. A person from technical team interviewed. He asked basic technical questions on Databases and networking.
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. A person from HR interviewed and discussed about package.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep your head cool. Prepare for basic technology questions on Sql,networking etc.,

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Mar 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all Resume tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Data structures, Puzzles

Round 3 - HR 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
  • Q2. Tell me about yourself.
  • Q3. Diffculty you faced during Projects.?

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for HCLTech Senior Software Engineer interview:
  • Data Structures
  • Operating Systems
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare Fundamental of CS and Data structures and anyone programming language

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Very basic java and react (mostly theory )

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Average Joe can clear it
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HCLTech Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in HCLTech Senior Software Engineer interview?
HCLTech interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the HCLTech interview process are Technical, HR and Resume Shortlist.
How to prepare for HCLTech Senior Software Engineer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at HCLTech. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at HCLTech expect are Java, Software Engineering, Spring, Python and C++.
What are the top questions asked in HCLTech Senior Software Engineer interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the HCLTech Senior Software Engineer interview -

  1. what is difference between controller and rest controll...read more
  2. What are the addon that can be added with spring boot ? What is the spring boot...read more
  3. Issues faced in troubleshooting your applications and how you overcome ...read more
How long is the HCLTech Senior Software Engineer interview process?

The duration of HCLTech Senior Software Engineer interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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