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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 2 days)

One evening someone called from HCL. The telephonic discussion was fixed for next day. It was a basic intro type round and lasted for 30-35 mins. Some simple technical questions like linked list, array, regex were asked. After one week there was a F2F. Two rounds of it, technical only. Finally HR round.

Interview Questions

Reverse a linked list, STL questions, OOPS concepts

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Negotiation Details

Not much haggling. I wanted to change domain so I did not bargain much as I was getting the domain of my liking

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

Attended on 26th Nov. Opening was for PL/SQL developer with an exposure on UNIX Shell scripting.

1> Technical round 1 : Was a general tech round, was asked to write down so many syntax.

2> Technical round 2 : Scenario based questions.

3> HR round : Just salary negotiation.

Interview Questions

Very general questions from SQL and PL/SQL.. Was asked to write syntax for things like trigger, sub queries, joins, view, procedure, package and so on. Scenario based questions based on Bulk bind, Sql performance degradation, and so on......, Over all it was a easy inetreview.

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Negotiation Details

Compensation benefit is very poor.. Can expect a max of 40% of hike,

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

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3.0

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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jun 2010 in Singapore (Singapore) (took 4+ weeks)

One round of HCL 1:1 interview, followed by one round of the client interview.

Interview Questions

Java 5, 6 difference?

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Negotiation Details

Nope.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jun 2009 (took 3 days)

Phone Interview 1:1 Interview Background Check Other

Interview Questions

How do you use sql loader without a tool?

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Negotiation Details

smooth

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2010 in Hyderabad (India) (took a day)

Cool interview
The interviewer is of same age group, so no tensions.

Interview Questions

how can u merge object repositories in QTP?

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If QTP is unable to recognize an object what will u do

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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2008 (took 2 days)

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