HP Interview Experience 2024

Last Updated : 9 Oct, 2024

I attended the HP interview two weeks ago through offline mode. They selected students for the interview by conducting a technical assessment a week prior. And I would like to share my entire interview experience in detail.

Technical assessment:

The Assessment consisted of three sections:

  1. MCQ, on numerical, verbal and logical reasoning.
  2. MCQs on technical subjects like OS, CN, and output-based questions, etc.,
  3. 3 Programming questions that were of easy-medium difficulty (To be noted: Python was not offered as a programming option)

Ninety-five members were selected for interviews, which were conducted in 3 sections.

  1. Technical
  2. Managerial
  3. HR

And each round was an elimination round.

Technical Round:

Firstly, when I entered, she asked me to introduce myself. She also inquired me why I wanted to join HP and why I Preferred to work in Bangalore when my native place is so beautiful.

She asked questions based on my skills in C++, SQL and DBMS as well as some questions related to Machine Learning, Since I had completed a project in that area. Here are the questions I was asked:

  1. Write SQL query to get full name by joining their first and last name
  2. what are joins and explain all types of joins
  3. Return the element from array whose frequency is high
  4. Difference between stack and queue.
  5. Difference between array and linked list.
  6. About circular queue
  7. About priority queue
  8. What is Reinforcement Learning
  9. What is supervised and unsupervised
  10. Explain KNN and Kmeans ? Are they supervised or unsupervised? ( She asked about these models as I didn't include them in my project)
  11. What are the metrics used in my project and to explain them and their formulas
  12. what is confusion matrix?
  13. Explain True Positive, False Positive, True Negative and False Negative with example
  14. what is friend function and inline function
  15. Explain access specifiers
  16. What is denormalization
  17. what is data replication

Managerial Round:

After this round, I was called for Managerial round which I found quite easy and straightforward. The questions included:

  1. Explain views and their advantages.
  2. Provide a basic SQL query on views and discuss what would happen if we didn't use views.
  3. Explain the steps for data cleaning in your project. How would you remove duplicates in Excel and Python.
  4. Do you know about cloud computing? Would you be willing to work as an intern in that domain?

HR Round:

Then, I was called for HR. Although, I don't remember every question, it didn't take much time to complete this round.

  1. How confident are you, and what is the reason for your confidence?
  2. Do you have any questions for me?

Thirty students attended the HR round, and I was one of them. Although it has been more than two weeks since the interview, I haven't received results for our college yet. I am waiting with hope, as the HR round is also an elimination round. I hope this article will be helpful to you.

Points to Note:

Prepare thoroughly based on your resume and projects. If you do a project on Machine Learning, make sure to learn about all the important and basic models.

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