Skip to contentSkip to footer
  • Community
  • Jobs
  • Companies
  • Salaries
  • For employers
      Notifications

      Loading...

      Elevate your career

      Discover your earning potential, land dream jobs, and share work-life insights anonymously.

      employer cover photo
      employer logo
      employer logo

      HCLTech

      Engaged employer

      About
      Reviews
      Pay and benefits
      Jobs
      Interviews
      Interviews
      Related searches: HCLTech reviews | HCLTech jobs | HCLTech salaries | HCLTech benefits | HCLTech conversations
      HCLTech interviewsHCLTech Entry Level Software Engineer interviewsHCLTech interview


      Glassdoor

      • About / Press
      • Awards
      • Blog
      • Research
      • Contact Us
      • Guides

      Employers

      • Free Employer Account
      • Employer Centre
      • Employers Blog

      Information

      • Help
      • Guidelines
      • Terms of Use
      • Privacy and Ad Choices
      • Do Not Sell Or Share My Information
      • Cookie Consent Tool
      • Security

      Work With Us

      • Advertisers
      • Careers
      Download the App

      • Browse by:
      • Companies
      • Jobs
      • Locations
      • Communities
      • Recent posts

      Copyright © 2008-2026. Glassdoor LLC. "Glassdoor," "Worklife Pro," "Bowls" and logo are proprietary trademarks of Glassdoor LLC.

      Followed companies

      Stay ahead in opportunities and insider tips by following your dream companies.

      Job searches

      Get personalised job recommendations and updates by starting your searches.

      Entry Level Software Engineer Interview

      28 Jan 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HCLTech (Seattle, WA)

      Interview

      Applied on a Sunday, got an email Tuesday night asking me to come in for an interview on Wednesday morning. I took it. Went in, not expecting much. About 10 candidates (myself included) went into a room and were handed paper tests. 12 questions on C# and 12 questions on SQL. A few easy ones but most were trick questions or really specific almost vocab-like questions. After the test, applicants were called into one-on-one interviews with a personal interviewer. Each candidate had a unique interviewer. While I was waiting to be assigned my interviewer, I talked with the guy who brought us in the room (I call him the interviewer’s boss) and he said typically on the written test, they don’t care if you’re super fluent in either C# or SQL. So long as you get half the questions on the test right, they push you into the individual interviews. My interviewer walked in and asked some whiteboard questions. I hadn’t practiced much the night before (It was my first engineering interview and I talked with some engineers in the family as to what I should expect and they said to expect very little in the way of technical questions since it’s entry level - bad advice). My basic linked list creation and insertion code was messy but it worked. Interviewer didn’t seem pleased (almost like he wanted perfection and didn’t want to settle but had to because his boss was in the room observing both of us). My interviewer then asked me an SQL whiteboard question which I butchered. He talked with his boss who came to me and said I was just on the edge of being what they were looking for but my butchering of the SQL question was the silver bullet to my chance on going to the next (apparently final if I heard him right) level of interviews. He said that he decided to specifically watch me out of all of the other interviewees because I was genuinely curious about everything. From what the answers were to the test, to what the company was like, to what I did wrong on my whiteboard problems. He asked me to study up again and try again in call them back to try again in two weeks. So TL;DR: Interview was almost copy-paste what I’ve heard from other Entry Level interviews. Paper test followed by whiteboard then a third group technical interview. Felt almost too easy but I just didn’t prep well (apparently other applicants didn’t either because we all got invites to interview at the last minute). Brush up on basic data structures, space complexity, runtime, etc. Also brush up on EVERYTHING to do with SQL. They expect you to at least be comfortable with both C# and SQL. Don’t bother going if you don’t know either.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Write up and populate a linked list in C#.
      4 Answers

      Question 2

      How would you insert values into your linked list and keep it sorted lowest to highest value?
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      Provided two separate databases, perform is right Outer join on both databases.
      1 Answer
      1

      Other Entry Level Software Engineer interview reviews for HCLTech

      Entry Level Software Engineer Interview

      25 Aug 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through university. I interviewed at HCLTech in Feb 2021

      Interview

      Basics of OOPS, Wrote the program for presented question in C++. Interviewer wanted to check familiarity with basics of coding. This was in 2021. HR round was just for formaility.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      To write a recursive program, and demonstrate various basic maths operations.
      Answer question

      Entry Level Software Engineer Interview

      9 Dec 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at HCLTech

      Interview

      Initial phone screen was just a few behavioural questions. This lasted about 15-20 minutes Next was a technical with only OOP questions and discussion of your projects/experience. Overall fairly easy. This round lasted an hour. A week later was an offer

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Questions about projects you did
      Answer question

      Question 2

      What are the pillars of OOP
      Answer question
      1

      Entry Level Software Developer Interview

      16 Nov 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at HCLTech

      Interview

      An aptitude test with little coding, was long. I passed it, they called me today saying I passed and that next is video interview. Then they told me salary is 58,000 non negotiable. That was an insult. I am a masters student, that alone should make me worth more than 58,000 during this hard pandemic. 58k is below average for that role at every company I’ve seen. Unacceptable, I might as well go work at McDonald’s, similar pay easier job.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Some sql questions and some technical java questions
      Answer question
      5

      Bowls

      Get actionable career advice tailored to you by joining more bowls.

      Company Bowl sample

      Want the inside scoop on your own company?

      Check out your Company Bowl for anonymous work chats.