I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at HCLTech (Mississauga, ON) in May 2022
Interview
Worst interview with interviewer who does not have any training on how to conduct interviews. They don't have any people skill, they might be good at technical but atleast have some training on to talk nicely and professionally. Secondly, I highly doubt they look at your resume before starting the interview. HR recruiters are really dumb enough to select anyone for the interview. I mean atleast do your homework on the part what skill is required for the job and if the person has worked on that tool/skill or not.
Nowhere in my resume I mentioned that I know the technology they work on and still they ask the questions without even looking at the resume. Only interviewee has to turn on the camera not applicable for interviewer. I mean is it not suppose to be two way interaction or they are lazy enough to get out of their bed and change their night suits in which they work from home.
Long story short, its just a consulting company and the interviewer did not have any skill to conduct the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What big data tools you have worked on?
What do you know about spark or kafka?
How to login to a VM?
I applied in-person. I interviewed at HCLTech (Coimbatore) in Aug 2021
Interview
2 rounds of Techincal Interview and the complexity is easy to moderate. Both rounds happenend on same day and each of 30mins. After technical discussion it took a month to release the offer letter
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Repartition and Colleasce in spark
Hive tables
SQL window functions
Spark Architecture
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at HCLTech (Pune) in Nov 2020
Interview
One of the worst worst worst interview i have ever applied its better to not even give the interview in such a yttihs company . At first recruiter call me for the interview and my interview was scheduled on 13th of November I logged in into there portal for the video round but the panel from the other end didn't even login i waited for around 15 to 20 minutes but still no response i ask the HR to reschedule the call because panel was not available or there is some technical issue from there end after some time HR called me and said panel was already logged in at the scheduled time and was waiting for you to respond . I mean seriously ?? we are not loof dear... Finally my interview got rescheduled on 16th of November I tried hard studied well panel ask me around 17 questions all are related to SQL and my current work I give 15 answer correctly all 15 were absolutely absolutely correct . i didn't able to give 2 answer correctly because I was not aware about the concept. but over all my interview went really very well. after that I called HR asking for the feedback he told me he didn't get any feedback from panels end. again I called him after 7 days he asked me to call after some time in the evening on the same day I was in the false hope that -"yes , My interview went well and i got selected" I called the HR at 3:00 and he told me that my profile is not shortlisted even after giving 15 absolutely correct answer they reject me . I don't know what they are expecting . See if someone is interviewing in your company who is already having a job his time is not free like you and secondly if you are rejecting someone who is willing to learn and explore you wont grow as a organization. This is the most honest feedback ever . Guys beware interview is just a time pass they already know whom to select and whom to reject interview is just a formality 😉