I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at HCLTech (Pune) in Jan 2025
Interview
Interview process was extremely long. It took me around 2 months to complete the process. Total 5 interviews were taken, last round interviewed by client and a senior manager of HCl team (5 members)
1. First round was technical round revloving around general devops questions and past work experience. Kubernetes and docker was asked in depth
2. Second round was focused on Terraform and Ansible. I was asked to write the script of common terraform and ansible scenarios.
3. Third round was a brush up round as HR contacted me after 1 month.
4. Fourth round was with the senior team lead involving some general devops discussion.
5. Fifth round was a client round. Every member will ask couple of questions based on your resume and their current work requirement.
Main focus was on Kubernetes, Docker, terraform.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Terraform and Ansible scripts.
1. Write terraform script for creating azure storage account
2. How to pass env variables in ansible playbook
3. Write ansible playbook for installing an application in multiple hosts.
4, Explain the challenges you have faced in your current organization
5. Overall advance level Kubernetes(taints,ingress rules, Architecture,VPA,HPA,etc),docker and CI/CD workflow was asked.
We had two rounds of interview first technical and next managerial round. My primary skill was react js so questions were from JavaScript mostly output based questions and some html and css questions overall a good interview
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at HCLTech (Noida) in Jun 2021
Interview
When I joined HCL tech during that time I have attend customer round only 1 technical After that HR round. for my case I am immediate joiner that also addon for me