HP Inc Interview Experience | On-Campus (Internship+FTE)

HP Inc visited our college in November 2020 for an internship plus performance-based PPO for Bangalore. The internship is of 6 months duration.

Round 1 Around 300 students...

HP Inc visited our college in November 2020 for an internship plus performance-based PPO for Bangalore. The internship is of 6 months duration.

Round 1 Around 300 students gave round 1. It was a 1 hr test. It was held on hirepro platform. It had 2 sections : Aptitude Technical The technical MCQs were medium-hard since the answers were very close to each other. 50 students made it to round 2. Round 2 (60 minutes-technical): 1-1 Face to face interview. Was asked questions from DBMS. Difference between lock and semaphore. Was asked to write a code: A variation of merge sort (don't remember the exact question). Discussed in-depth deadlocks. Discussion about volatile storage, its need, what would happen if it was not present. What is its need if I have 24hrs of power on? Asked about big O complexity.i++ vs ++i.Which is faster and why. Round 3 (45 minutes-Managerial): Asked about OOPs concepts, their applications in the real world. Explained each of them with suitable examples. Gave two puzzles: Puzzle 7 | (3 Bulbs and 3 Switches) . Puzzle | Elevator Puzzle . I was not able to answer the 1st one, but he gave a lot of hints, and then I was finally able to guess. Then there were other questions like how would you manage a team, about projects, role in them, how did you convince one of your team members as she was more inclined towards preparation for UPSC. Also, I had a good discussion of what a product based company is and how it is different from service-based companies. Round 4 (30 minutes)-

HR It was a general hr interview. Tell me about yourself Your interests What do you know about HP Inc? Why do you want to work here? The next day the results were declared. I was not selected but 5 other students got selected for Bangalore. After an hour later, 7 people from the remaining 45 were again called for an interview for the Pune location. I was among one of them. Got no time for preparation. Round 1 (Technical 1hr-1:30): Face to face. It was difficult compared to the previous rounds. I was asked in-depth from DBMS. I was asked to write an SQL code. A table was given. I had written it using the "WHERE" clause. The interviewer asked me to re-write using IN clause. Then I was asked to write a few codes and at the end asked to give the time complexities. Bubble Sort . Find if there is a subarray with 0 sum. Given an array : 3 2 2 1 5 2 3 5 Delete all 2's from it Counting frequencies of array elements Find the repeating and the missing | Added 3 new methods I was asked about the OOPs concept. Asked about polymorphism and its types. Compile-time polymorphism Write a code to show operator overloading. Difference between method overloading and method overriding. Threading, multilevel scheduling, and its drawbacks and how it can be overcome. Round 2 (Managerial 60mins): Asked in-depth about my project. I was also asked to show it using the screen share. After that, the interviewer also saw the codes. Picked up lines and was asked to explain. Since it was a web development project, on the menu page, she asked me to add another menu and show her. Difference between get and post methods. Why I code HTML, CSS, bootstrap, etc, and why not react. What would I study web development when I could easily build sites using WordPress etc. If there is a huge project and I had to fix an error, how do I find out in which file the error exists? If suppose your manager comes and tells you that you have made a mistake and that your code is not working properly, how would you handle it? What would you do if you were placed in a team, where the work is monotonous and there is nothing new to learn and you have been placed there since you made mistakes in other groups before. Round 3 (20 mins)-

HR This was a very friendly round. Tell me about yourself, your hobbies, and interests. I also told him since I had no time to prepare, I did not think the interviews went very well. Since I said I liked helping the underprivileged and helping nature, he said that HP also made laptops using ocean-bound plastics. It was a very short and friendly discussion. After hour results were announced, 3 people were selected, and I was one of them.