HP Enterprise Experience | Set 6 (On-Campus)
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India (formerly HP RD) visited our campus in mid August.Broadly there were 3 profiles : Servers, Storage and Networking. Location offered was ...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India (formerly HP R&D) visited our campus in mid August. Broadly there were 3 profiles : Servers, Storage and Networking. Location offered was Bangalore.
Round 1 Online Test (75 minutes) 20 Aptitude Questions (Level was bit tough) 20 Technical Questions ( Level was average) 8 OOPS Questions(We had to select one language out of C++ or Java. C++ questions were mostly from pointers, Java was mostly about OOPs. The questions were tough) Out of 385 students 50 were selected for the
next round.
Round 2 Technical Interview (1 hour) 1. Asked which technology I am into 2. Questions from project (in great detail) 3. Questions about what I did as a member of Robotics Club 4. Write a program(any language) to read incoming byte stream and display the respective string 5. Design a system to store Articles (DBS concepts) and retrieve the most popular article (My answers: Sorting, Sorting using Map-reduce, Max Heap) 6. Given a big text file containing different sections, randomly access a user provided section and display on the screen. # He was impressed because I did one program in Java and one in C. # Don't mention anything on the CV which you cannot defend.
Round 3 Technical/Managerial Interview (1 hour) 1. Tell me about your Parents 2. Tell me about your city (in great detail) 3. About the sports I play and the things I like in my favorite sportsman (this was an important physiological test) 4. Asked me which language I prefer, I said Java, so he made me write a basic C++ program and asked to explain every line of the code. 5. Write down your laptop configuration and explain each term. (Basic questions about processors, primary/secondary memory, and a little bit of OS concepts) 6. What do you mean by the clock speed of the processor. 7. Made me ask him 4 questions (which took about half of the time of the whole interview) # Do not mention any term which you don't know about, the interviewers quickly catch it and asks question about it.
Round 4 HR (Telephonic, 15 minutes) 1. Introduction. 2. Strength/Weakness. 3. About the company. 4. Who is the CEO of HPE. 5. What kind of work I am looking for. 6. What non-technical things I learnt in my previous internship. 7. Ask me a question # Always learn about the company before the interviews. # Always ask the interviewer questions if asked to. The interviews started at 8AM and went till 9PM. Everyone in the HPE team were very friendly. Out of 50, 7 were finally selected for FTE and 12 were selected just for the 6-month Internship.
About This Question
This is a reported interview question from a hp interview for a swe role (intern level) during the oa round reported in 2017.
It covers the following topics: Sorting, Heap, Sql, Strings .
Difficulty rating: Easy
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