HCLTech runs the shortest process of the big service companies — one written test, then a technical interview and HR. That makes the paper the whole gate: each section is scored on its own, so a strong quantitative score will not rescue a weak verbal one.
3 rounds you can sit here, each gated behind the last, the way the real process gates them.
HCLTech scores each section separately rather than on a total, so the weak section is the one that ends the process. The real paper's fourth section is Technical — data structures, OOP, OS and DBMS MCQs — which this paper does not cover; the Technical Interview round is where we test that ground instead.
| Section | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Quantitative | 8 | 8 min |
| Logical Reasoning | 8 | 8 min |
| Verbal Ability | 8 | 8 min |
| Analytical Reasoning | 8 | 8 min |
A spoken round built from your own resume — your projects, your stack, your decisions — with follow-ups based on what you actually say. HCLTech leans on fundamentals over puzzles: OOP, DBMS, OS basics and simple data structures, tied back to what you built.
| Section | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Project deep-dive | 4 | 10 min |
| CS fundamentals | 4 | 10 min |
The final conversation. Classic HR questions mixed with situational STAR ones — strengths and weaknesses, why HCLTech, handling pressure, willingness to relocate — scored on clarity, self-awareness and whether you gave a concrete example rather than a rehearsed one.
| Section | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Classic HR | 3 | 8 min |
| Situational / STAR | 3 | 7 min |
The first round is free and takes 32 minutes. You will know your score and your weakest section by the end of it.
Try HCLTech free · 32 min →Sections are timed separately, so time saved in one does not carry into the next. These are the same splits the simulation runs.
| Section | Questions | Minutes | Per question |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 · Online Written Test | |||
| Quantitative | 8 | 8 | 60 seconds |
| Logical Reasoning | 8 | 8 | 60 seconds |
| Verbal Ability | 8 | 8 | 60 seconds |
| Analytical Reasoning | 8 | 8 | 60 seconds |
| Round 2 · Technical Interview | |||
| Project deep-dive | 4 | 10 | 150 seconds |
| CS fundamentals | 4 | 10 | 150 seconds |
| Round 3 · HR Interview | |||
| Classic HR | 3 | 8 | 160 seconds |
| Situational / STAR | 3 | 7 | 140 seconds |
The topics our question bank draws on for each section of this paper, most-used first. Every attempt serves a different set, so the topics repeat and the questions do not.
number systems, averages, mensuration, ratio and proportion, simple interest, problems on ages, percentages, profit and loss.
number series, ranking, seating arrangement, coding-decoding, clocks, calendars, direction sense, blood relations.
synonyms, antonyms, sentence complete, vocabulary, grammar, sentence correct, spelling, comprehension.
6 questions from the bank this simulation draws on, across the sections HCLTech actually tests, each with the worked solution — the method, not just the right letter.
3 rounds — Online Written Test, Technical Interview and HR Interview. 46 questions, about 67 minutes in total.
Round 1 (Online Written Test) is free — no card, no credits. The remaining 2 rounds unlock for Rs 99, down from Rs 199, once, with two attempts at every round.
Round 1 takes 32 minutes over 32 questions; all 3 rounds come to about 67 minutes. Rounds unlock one at a time, so you need not sit them together.
60%. Below that the simulation ends there, as the real process would. You keep the report for the round you sat.
Online Written Test, 4 separately timed sections. Quantitative — 8 questions in 8 min; Logical Reasoning — 8 questions in 8 min; Verbal Ability — 8 questions in 8 min; Analytical Reasoning — 8 questions in 8 min.
For Technical Interview and HR Interview, yes — the questions are generated from your own resume, so the projects you list are the projects you are asked about.
Each one runs that company's own hiring pattern, and Round 1 is free on all of them.