HCLTech interview questions

The staffing agency stated the role was for heading the Datacenter Automation stream as a practice head. However, the interviewer who happened to be a Assistant General Manager by name Prosenjit Banerjee, happened to ask lameduck questions which were from college going text books. This reflects that the Company is looking for rudimentery skills even at Senior Position. Watch out for the Job Description, even before you attend an interview with this Organization.. I would rate the interviewer let down the Organization.

A recruiter at Transamerican Information Systems contacted me and asked me if I wanted to work with HCL America on a 6 month contract. I agreed because I had about 80% of the requirements. She then arranges a 1-hour F2F interview at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel with the HCL representatives. I arrive at the hotel 30 minutes early. There is no sign for HCL America, so I ask the Help Desk. I’m told to go to the 2nd floor. On the second floor, there is a desk where people sign in for interviews. They ask me for my resume, and I tell them they have it on their records. They look and find me there. I am then escorted to a room with at least 50 people and wait. A few minutes later, the interviewer escorts me to a room where 2 other people are interviewing. The interviewer sits me down at a desk and asks me questions such as “what is a class?”, “what is polymorphism?”, and “what is inheritance?”. I wasn’t prepared for theses entry-level questions, since I have been developing software for years. The interviewer never asked about my programming experience. This was strange because Microsoft experience was a pre-requisite. It didn’t help that he was an auditory type person and I’m visual. As a result, I wasn’t able to properly answer his questions. As a result I did badly. We shook hands and parted. Based on my experiences, I wrote a blog, giving suggestions on how technical interviews could be conducted more effectively. I hope this is useful: http://trevy-corner.blogspot.com/2009/08/conducting-technical-interviews.html