HCL Technologies

Profile:

HCL Technologies offers world-class technology solutions for the emerging network centric world. It provides a range of technology and software engineering services including Technology Development Services, Software Engineering Services, Application Engineering Services, and Networking Services.

These services are predicated on a rich technology heritage. Experience with the development and application of technologies like Internet and E-Commerce, Embedded software, Networking and telecom protocols, VLSI design etc.

Skills on a wide variety of computing platforms from Open Systems to Enterprise Servers based on mainframes expertise, object oriented and legacy system architecture, methodologies in addition to distinguished R&D background uniquely positions us as a preferred provider of technology and software engineering services in the emerging network centric world.

HCL Technologies has established dedicated offshore software factories with clients such as Bankers Trust (Australia), Lexis Nexis (US) , Southern California Edison (US), A Networking Major (US)

HCL Technologies operates through 29 offices in 14 countries in United States, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific

The company employs 3300 IT professionals worldwide.

HCL Technologies holds 100% stake in Intelicent (former HCL James Martin Inc.), a US based methodology consulting led Services Company. The company also has a 100% subsidiary in India, HCL Comnet Systems and Services Ltd, which provides networking services. For more information about this company visit their homesite at http://www.hcltechnologies.com/

Written Test:
The written test is purely technical and mostly covers mainly computer engineering related subjects. The paper is multiple choices with negative marking. It consists of some 25 questions to be done in 1 hour. The questions are based on subjects such as Data Structures, Networking, Digital Circuits and Logic Design, C, Operating Systems, Automata Theory, Basic Communications, Compiler Design.

Interview:

The test is followed by a technical interview. The interview is reasonably tough. The interviewers generally lay stress on Operating Systems, C and Networks. The technical interview also entails the HR interview, which is quite general.

SAMPLE PAPER 1:

Section A

1. Which of the following involves context switch,
(a) system call (b) privileged instruction(c) floating point exception (d) all the above(e) none of the above Ans: (a)
2. In OST, terminal emulation is done in
(a) sessions layer (b) application layer (c) presentation layer (d) transport layer Ans: (b)
3. For a 25MHz processor , what is the time taken by the instruction which needs 3 clock cycles,
(a)120 nano secs (b)120 micro secs(c)75 nano secs (d)75 micro secs
4. For 1 MB memory, the number of address lines required,
(a)11 (b)16 (c)22 (d) 24 Ans. (b)
5. Semaphore is used for
(a) synchronization (b) dead-lock avoidance(c) box (d) none Ans. (a)
6. Which holds true for the following statement
class c: public A, public B
a) 2 member in class A, B should not have same nameb) 2 member in class A, C should not have same namec) both d) none Ans. (a)
7. Question related to java
8. OLE is used in
a) inter connection in unixb) interconnection in WINDOWS c) interconnection in WINDOWS NT
9. Convert a given HEX number to OCTAL
10. Macros and function are related in what aspect?
(a)recursion (b)varying no of arguments(c)hypochecking (d)type declaration
11.Preproconia.. does not do which one of the following
(a) macro (b) conditional complication(c) in type checking (d) including load file Ans. (c)
12. Piggy backing is a technique for
a) Flow control b) Sequence c) Acknowledgement d) retransmition Ans. (c)
13. In signed magnitude notation what is the minimum value that can be represented with 8 bits
(a) -128 (b) -255 (c) -127 (d) 0
14. There is an employer table with key fields as employer number data In every n'th row are needed for a simple following queries will get required results.
(a) select A employee number from employee A , where exists from employee B where A employee no. >= B employee having (count(*) mod n)=0(b) select employee number from employe A, employe B where A employe number>=B employ number group by employee number having(count(*) mod n=0 )(c) both (a) & (b)(d) none of the above
15. Type duplicates of a row in a table customer with non uniform key field customer number you can see
a) delete from costomer where customer number exists( select distinct customer number from customer having count )b) delete customer a where customer number in b rowidc) delete customer a where custermor number in( select customer number from customer a, customer b )d) none of the above