Almost every public first-hand account of interviewing at HP Inc. comes from its India campus pipeline, and the loop is remarkably consistent across years: a timed online test on the HirePro platform (aptitude + technical MCQs + one or two coding problems), then a technical interview built around the resume and core CS fundamentals, then a managerial round mixing project depth with puzzles and team-fit questions, then a short HR round. Firmware and R&D roles skew toward systems topics (memory management, process synchronization, microcontrollers, RTOS, endianness) while general software roles lean on DBMS, SQL, OOP and standard DSA. Selection ratios quoted by candidates are steep, typically a few hundred applicants down to ten or fifteen offers, and most offers are a six-month internship with performance-based full-time conversion.
These 7 writeups cover software engineering, embedded firmware, internship and other roles, India campus, almost entirely. 6 of them were posted under a forum handle, so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
1Online assessmentOnline assessmentA three-part timed test: a short aptitude section, a technical MCQ section covering C, data structures, OS and networks, and a small OOP-specific section.Covered: Aptitude, Data structures & algorithms, Operating systems, Networking, OOP
2Technical interviewTechnicalHeavily systems-flavoured: memory management, process synchronisation, the memory layout of a program and storage class specifiers, plus STL containers, pure virtual functions and a linked-list cycle question.Covered: Operating systems, Concurrency, Data structures & algorithms, OOP
3Managerial interviewHiring managerOpened with personal and hometown small talk, then moved into embedded fundamentals: microcontrollers, RISC versus CISC, endianness, RTOS scheduling, and how linkers and loaders work.Covered: Operating systems, Domain knowledge, Behavioral
4HRBehavioralShort closing conversation on motivation for joining HP, fit, and a compensation discussion.Covered: Behavioral
Software Engineer (Internship + FTE conversion)
Received an offer
Internship, 6-month internship with performance-based full-time conversion. 7 rounds. Shared by anonymous GeeksforGeeks contributor on gfg, 2020-12-30
1Online testOnline assessmentOne-hour aptitude and technical MCQ paper. The candidate found the technical options deliberately close together. Roughly 300 sat it and about 50 moved on.Covered: Aptitude, Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interviewTechnicalAn hour on DBMS concepts, the difference between locks and semaphores, deadlocks, a variation on merge sort, and complexity reasoning.Covered: DBMS, Concurrency, Data structures & algorithms, Operating systems
3Managerial interviewHiring managerApplied OOP questions with real examples, two classic logic puzzles, and discussion of team roles and the difference between product and service companies.Covered: OOP, Puzzles, Behavioral, Domain knowledge
4HRBehavioralHalf an hour on background, interests, what the candidate knew about HP and why they wanted to join.Covered: Behavioral
5Technical interview (second location panel)TechnicalA longer second-site technical round: SQL query semantics, several array and sorting implementations, polymorphism and overloading versus overriding, and threading.Covered: DBMS, SQL, Data structures & algorithms, OOP, Concurrency
6Managerial interview (second location panel)Hiring managerA detailed project review with a code walkthrough, why particular technology choices were made, how the candidate hunts for errors, and how they take criticism.Covered: Past projects, Debugging, Conflict handling
7HR (second location panel)BehavioralA relaxed closing chat about hobbies and values that turned into a discussion of HP's sustainability and ocean-bound plastics work.Covered: Behavioral, Domain knowledge
1Online test (HirePro)Online assessmentA 75-minute HirePro test mixing aptitude and reasoning with CS-fundamentals MCQs. Around 750 applied and roughly 150 advanced.Covered: Aptitude, Data structures & algorithms, Operating systems, DBMS
2Technical interviewTechnicalAround an hour on OS memory and scheduling, TCP/IP and TCP versus UDP, linked-list manipulation, and a walkthrough of the candidate's project.Covered: Operating systems, Networking, Data structures & algorithms, Past projects
3Managerial interviewHiring managerA short round: introduction, resume-driven questions and general fit discussion.Covered: Resume deep-dive, Behavioral
4HRBehavioralBrief closing round on career goals, motivation and knowledge of the company.Covered: Behavioral
Software Engineer (off-campus fresher hiring)
Received an offer
New grad, 6-month internship convertible to full time on performance. 4 rounds. Shared by anonymous GeeksforGeeks contributor on gfg, 2023-03-21
1Online assessmentOnline assessmentA 90-minute test of MCQs across networking, OS and DSA plus two medium coding problems.Covered: Networking, Operating systems, Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interviewTechnicalA 45-minute face-to-face round after a pre-placement talk, covering OS, Java, cloud basics and DSA.Covered: Operating systems, Data structures & algorithms, Domain knowledge
3Managerial interviewHiring managerAbout 35 minutes going deep on the candidate's project, including database connectivity details behind it.Covered: Past projects, DBMS
4HRBehavioralA communication-and-personality round rather than a technical one.Covered: Behavioral
1Online testOnline assessmentA 75-minute virtual test: medium-difficulty quantitative aptitude, technical MCQs and two coding problems. About 51 of 187 campus applicants advanced.Covered: Aptitude, Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interviewTechnicalA 30 to 45 minute resume-led round touching circular linked lists, pointers and memory leaks, ACID properties and deadlocks.Covered: Data structures & algorithms, Operating systems, DBMS, Networking, Resume deep-dive
3Managerial interviewHiring managerProject discussion plus SDLC phases, motivation, weaknesses and challenges the candidate had faced.Covered: Past projects, Domain knowledge, Behavioral
4HRBehavioralA ten to twenty minute close on relocation willingness and long-term plans.Covered: Behavioral
1Technical assessmentOnline assessmentA screening assessment that cut the campus cohort down to about 95 students invited to the in-person interview day.Covered: Aptitude, Data structures & algorithms
2Technical interviewTechnicalIn-person round in Bangalore covering C++ access specifiers, SQL joins, data structures and, because the resume listed ML, model basics such as clustering and confusion matrices.Covered: SQL, DBMS, Data structures & algorithms, OOP, Domain knowledge
3Managerial interviewHiring managerDatabase views, more SQL, how the candidate cleans data, and willingness to work on cloud technologies.Covered: SQL, DBMS, Domain knowledge
4HRBehavioralA brief closing round. Roughly 30 students reached it. The candidate was still waiting on a result when writing.Covered: Behavioral
1Online coding testOnline assessmentA one-hour online round with two coding problems, a maximum-subarray style question and a minimum-cost rope-joining question.Covered: Arrays & strings, Greedy algorithms
2Face-to-face technicalTechnicalAn hour-long in-person round about a month after the test, with two problems: a tiling/counting problem and a string decoding problem.Covered: Dynamic programming, Arrays & strings
3Face-to-face technicalTechnicalA 50-minute follow-up with two easier problems, including pairing positive and negative values and a cash-flow settlement question.Covered: Arrays & strings, Greedy algorithms
What HP is hiring for now
923 open roles in our index. Advertised pay floors run $83k to $147k (median $116k, from 344 postings that state pay).
Almost every public first-hand account of interviewing at HP Inc. comes from its India campus pipeline, and the loop is remarkably consistent across years: a timed online test on the HirePro platform (aptitude + technical MCQs + one or two coding problems), then a technical interview built around the resume and core CS fundamentals, then a managerial round mixing project depth with puzzles and team-fit questions, then a short HR round. Firmware and R&D roles skew toward systems topics (memory management, process synchronization, microcontrollers, RTOS, endianness) while general software roles lean on DBMS, SQL, OOP and standard DSA. Selection ratios quoted by candidates are steep, typically a few hundred applicants down to ten or fifteen offers, and most offers are a six-month internship with performance-based full-time conversion.
What topics does HP test in interviews?
Commonly reported topics include Aptitude, Data structures & algorithms, Operating systems, DBMS, SQL, Networking.
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.
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