I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HCLTech (Bengaluru) in Mar 2016
Interview
They called for the interview at their Electronic City office. Had to wait for the interview.
HR mixed up the resume and didn't call till about 12pm when I went and asked on what basis they were calling candidate?
She went to the place were resumes were kept and saw but could not find ,then she found it somewere and said I would be next.
Then panel called asked 2 question and sent back.
HR put my profile to other panel he asked the same question and cleared the first round.
In second round he gave 2 programs which I partially could do , he looked very unsatisfied with the try so gave one more which I was not able to do so he sent back.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Consumer and producer problem.
Write a program on executor class of concurrent package.
String immutability
How to create my own immutable class?
Prog1:
write a programme to generate the below pattern if 4x3 is given
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
If 2x4 then
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
Prog2: write a thread based program to get all even and odd elements in 2 different arrays ex array of 100 all even in a[], all odd in b[].
Prog 3: write a program to find the shortest path in a given matrix example if matrix is 4x3
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
O/p: 1,2,7,12 and 1,6,11,12
2 rounds. Technical , focused on python programming, database design. Data structures and algorithms, and coding problems. Also sql query based questions and system design type discussion based on previous projects
Explain the CI/CD pipeline you have implemented and how you automated deployments.
How do you troubleshoot issues in Kubernetes (e.g., CrashLoopBackOff, pending pods)?
What strategies do you use to secure cloud resources and manage access (IAM/RBAC)?
How do you monitor applications and handle Sev1/critical incidents?
What is your approach to infrastructure as code, and how do you manage configuration drift (Terraform/Ansible)?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the CI/CD pipeline you have implemented and how you automated deployments.
How do you troubleshoot issues in Kubernetes (e.g., CrashLoopBackOff, pending pods)?
What strategies do you use to secure cloud resources and manage access (IAM/RBAC)?
How do you monitor applications and handle Sev1/critical incidents?
What is your approach to infrastructure as code, and how do you manage configuration drift (Terraform/Ansible)?
HR personal called me to schedule the initial interview. She called me the second day after getting my details. It was suppose to be an online interview, however I was not available on that day. I requested her to shift the time by half an hour at least or any other day any other time. She hung up saying sorry. How rude. Just got the impression how to work in such a company long term