HP Interview Experience

HP's first step in the interview process would be

WRITTEN TEST

It consists of Aptitudes like reasoning, quants, and verbal other than technical questions one mark from DSA, c memory allocation, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, OS, Networks, and three technical coding questions (easy - 10 mark, medium 2 questions 15 marks -> total mark 30)

Technical Interview

This technical interview depends on the panel of HR and their mindset. But practically general questions asked are mostly from OS and C language.

OS:

• Real-time OS implementation
• Scheduling algorithms

C:

• Code segment
• Task segment
• Memory allocation (malloc, calloc, realloc, free) how to declare the size for free?
• Malloc structure

JAVA:

• Abstract class implementation program and also one substring program

DSA:

• Tree implementation
• To find the longest path length in the tree (coding)

General question: Compare to C why C++, java are prefferred ?