HPE's hiring, as documented publicly, is overwhelmingly an India campus funnel: a long proctored online test (HirePro, Mettl or HackerRank) mixing aptitude, CS-fundamentals MCQs and one to three coding problems, then a deep technical interview, then a managerial round that is half behavioural and half technical, then a short HR round on relocation, family background and motivation. Compared with other large tech employers the loop leans much harder on operating systems, computer networks and Linux than on competitive DSA, and interviewers repeatedly go line by line through the candidate's own resume and projects. Non-engineering tracks (technical solution consulting) add a spoken-English assessment and a group discussion in place of some coding.
These 11 writeups cover software engineering, intern new grad, quality assurance and other roles, India campus heavy. All of them were posted under a pseudonym (Reddit, GeeksforGeeks or forum handles), so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
Typical rounds
3.61-5 range
Outcomes shared
5/0offer / not
Most common round
Online assessment
Sources span
2018 - 2025
Most frequently reported · Data structures & algorithms(10), Operating systems(10), Aptitude(9), Behavioral(9), Networking(8)
What Hewlett Packard Enterprise is hiring for now
936 open roles in our index · advertised pay floors run $93k-$170k (median $121k, from 387 postings that state pay).
Interview experiences at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Outcome
Seniority
Software Development / Software Automation and QA (on-campus)
New grad
Received an offer4 rounds
1
Online test (4 parts)Online assessment
A four-part proctored test: twenty aptitude items, roughly two dozen CS-fundamentals MCQs weighted toward OS, networks, Linux, IoT and cloud, a language-specific MCQ block where the candidate pre-commits to either C/C++ or Java/Python, and finally two harder coding problems in whichever language track was chosen. Around 105 of 719 who sat the test went through to interviews.
Roughly eighty minutes over a shared whiteboard plus an online compiler with screen sharing. Started with self-introduction and project walkthrough, then exception handling in the candidate's preferred language, string manipulation without library helpers, predicting output of arithmetic and formatting expressions, C++ multiple-inheritance constructor ordering, and two grid/array problems.
Covered · Arrays & strings, OOP, Past projects, Debugging
3
Managerial interviewHiring manager
About thirty-five minutes, almost entirely conversational: schooling, why this college, campus culture, family background, languages spoken and what appealed about HPE. The candidate got no technical questions here but reports peers being asked OOP, OS, networks and DSA in the same slot.
Covered · Behavioral, Past projects
4
HRBehavioral
A short closing round on projects and the candidate's role in them, family and background, openness to relocation for the internship and the full-time role, and why HPE.
A moderated group discussion on an assigned topic, judged on clarity of argument and how the candidate works with the group rather than on technical depth.
Covered · Communication
4
Technical interview (in person)Technical
An in-person deep dive on core CS subjects plus questions about emerging technology areas the candidate claimed awareness of.
A hard academic gate applied before anything else: minimum school percentages and a high undergraduate CGPA, restricted to CSE and ECE branches.
Covered · Resume deep-dive
2
Online testOnline assessment
A three-hour HackerRank test with two coding problems (one greedy/heap-style, one graph traversal with cycles) and a wide MCQ set covering aptitude, DSA, OS, networking, cloud, AI/ML, distributed systems, DevOps, databases and C/C++.
Seventy-five minutes on video with proctoring-style checks, then several linked-list and array problems written out longhand, a CPU round-robin scheduling exercise, and SQL work covering aggregate queries plus normalization of a supplied table.
Half an hour where the candidate demoed a live running project, then answered database theory (triggers, procedures, DDL vs DML) and OOP questions on inheritance, polymorphism and overloading versus overriding.
Covered · Past projects, SQL, OOP
5
HRBehavioral
A ten-minute wrap-up covering compensation, relocation, family background and feedback on the process.
A sixty-minute Mettl test combining forty MCQs across DSA, OOP, DBMS and SQL with a single coding problem (a stock buy/sell maximum-profit variant).
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, OOP, DBMS, SQL
2
Technical interviewTechnical
An hour-long video call built around one array-manipulation coding problem plus discussion of networking and operating-system fundamentals.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Networking, Operating systems
3
Manager + HRHiring manager
A forty-five minute combined round run by a senior manager: self-assessment and motivation questions interleaved with OOP theory and a walkthrough of the candidate's team project.
Seventy-five minutes split into aptitude, CS-fundamentals MCQs on scheduling, routers and protocols, and a language-specific OOP block where the candidate pre-selects C++ or Java. No coding problems were set that year; 45 of 300 advanced.
A two-panelist interview running 45-60 minutes: favourite subject and why, an exhaustive interrogation of the candidate's internship work including alternative designs and debugging approach, a weighing-balance puzzle with varied constraints, then memory/paging/semaphore theory, TCP-IP and OSI data flow, and finally writing a sorting routine and a bit-counting routine.
Covered · Past projects, Puzzles, Operating systems, Networking, Data structures & algorithms
3
Managerial interviewHiring manager
Thirty minutes that included two five-minute uninterrupted monologues, one on operating systems and one on the OSI layers, used to judge fluency and structure of thought, plus struct-versus-union memory layout and questions about the pre-placement talk.
Covered · Behavioral, Past projects, Operating systems, Networking
4
HRBehavioral
A short friendly round on family background, proudest achievements, prior interview outcomes and why an ECE student was targeting software roles.
A hundred-minute test: twenty aptitude questions, thirty harder technical questions spanning networking, OS, web basics, big data and computer architecture, and an optional coding section where candidates had to pick which problems to attempt before reading them. 91 of 350 advanced.
Covered · Aptitude, Networking, Operating systems, Web development
2
Technical interviewTechnical
About seventy minutes with no introduction or project discussion at all. The first half was C language semantics (static variables, void pointers) and linked-list coding including cycle detection in a shared editor; the second half was applied OS and networking: deadlock conditions and prevention, mutex versus semaphore, OSI layers, how a home router picks a route, NICs and switches.
For the Aruba track this ran closer to a second technical: DNS and the full what-happens-when-you-type-a-URL walkthrough, then roughly fifteen minutes probing depth of Linux experience, plus a question on further-study plans.
A HirePro test with aptitude, verbal, C output and DS/algorithms MCQs plus two easy-to-medium coding problems, one a sieve-of-Eratosthenes variant. 19 of 100 advanced.
Covered · Aptitude, Operating systems, Trees, Data structures & algorithms
2
Technical interviewTechnical
Forty-five minutes: project workflow, a challenge on why an electrical-engineering student wanted a software job, then writing a full linked-list sort in an online editor (solved with merge sort), followed by pointer and polymorphism theory. 7 of 19 advanced.
Covered · Past projects, Data structures & algorithms, OOP
3
HRBehavioral
A thirty-minute mostly-formality round on the resume, with a couple of dropped-in technical questions the candidate simply declined to guess at, then an extended candidate-questions segment about work culture and mentorship. Three interns were selected.
Thirty MCQs on aptitude, logical reasoning, verbal and chart reading under roughly a minute each, then about thirty-five minutes of array and matrix coding, on HirePro with camera and mic proctoring. Around 40 of 350 advanced.
Covered · Aptitude, Arrays & strings
2
Technical interviewPanel
An on-campus two-person panel that walked the entire resume, pressing on how data structures were chosen for the candidate's ML project, Python memory management and namespaces, and prior internship and hackathon work. The candidate was then told to pick one of networking, OS or Linux and talk on it for ten minutes. No coding was asked of this candidate although peers were asked to write binary search or an ML algorithm.
Covered · Resume deep-dive, Past projects, Data structures & algorithms, Networking, Operating systems
3
Additional cybersecurity interviewTechnical
Managerial and HR rounds were dropped that day for time. Around ten were selected as developer interns and five, including this candidate, were waitlisted and given an extra interview for a cybersecurity internship track instead.
A HirePro online test with aptitude and technical MCQs plus three coding problems graded on a difficulty-weighted scale; the candidate cleared with two of three solved.
Covered · Aptitude, Data structures & algorithms
2
Technical interview (in person)Technical
Held on campus after a pre-placement talk. After introductions and a detailed project discussion the interviewer worked through Java OOP theory: overloading versus overriding, early and late binding, encapsulation, abstract classes versus interfaces and annotation semantics.
Covered · OOP, Past projects
3
Managerial interviewHiring manager
Focused on the candidate's database project: enumerating the schema and writing retrieval queries live, followed by a conversation about which emerging technologies the candidate wanted to explore.
Covered · DBMS, SQL, Past projects, Domain knowledge
4
HRBehavioral
Short round on hobbies, willingness to relocate and motivation for joining HPE.
Seventy-five minutes of aptitude, general technical MCQs and a language-specific OOP block where C++ leaned on pointers and Java on OOP semantics. 30 of 350 advanced.
Covered · Aptitude, OOP, Operating systems
2
Technical interviewTechnical
An hour focused on depth in one chosen language and its internals, the technologies the candidate worked in, an exhaustive project discussion and a few data-structure programs.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, OOP, Past projects
3
Technical + managerialHiring manager
An hour blending personal and psychological questions (family, sport, who the candidate admires) with writing and line-by-line explanation of a small Java program and sorting algorithms, then hypothetical team-friction scenarios and questions about project management problems faced.
Covered · Behavioral, Conflict handling, Data structures & algorithms
4
HRBehavioral
Differentiation questions, extracurriculars from the resume, more team-conflict scenarios, higher-study plans and location constraints.
A three-hour screening test taken as a student in Jaipur. Content spanned quantitative and probability aptitude, data-interpretation charts, English grammar and vocabulary, algorithm analysis and complexity, process forking and disk scheduling, routing protocols, containerisation and AI/ML concepts, plus at least one tree-based coding problem.
What is the interview process like at Hewlett Packard Enterprise?
HPE's hiring, as documented publicly, is overwhelmingly an India campus funnel: a long proctored online test (HirePro, Mettl or HackerRank) mixing aptitude, CS-fundamentals MCQs and one to three coding problems, then a deep technical interview, then a managerial round that is half behavioural and half technical, then a short HR round on relocation, family background and motivation. Compared with other large tech employers the loop leans much harder on operating systems, computer networks and Linux than on competitive DSA, and interviewers repeatedly go line by line through the candidate's own resume and projects. Non-engineering tracks (technical solution consulting) add a spoken-English assessment and a group discussion in place of some coding.
What topics does Hewlett Packard Enterprise test in interviews?
Commonly reported topics include Aptitude, Data structures & algorithms, Operating systems, Networking, OOP, DBMS.
These guides summarize public, first-hand interview experiences shared by candidates. They describe the shape of each loop and the topics that came up, not a leaked question bank, and every experience links back to its original source. Processes change often; treat this as directional prep, not a script.