Hewlett-Packard Interview Questions

Excerpts from Interview #1:

• What do you mean by polymorphism?
• What is meant by realloc()?
• Can a class have a static inner class?
• What do you mean by memory leak?
• Explain what is meant by CORE DUMPS?
• Explain virtual inheritance?

• Tell me briefly about yourself.
• Why do you want to join HP?
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• Why should we hire you?
• Do you have any questions for us?

Excerpts from Interview #2:

• What is the difference between structure and union?
• What are the storage classes in C?
• Write a program for Sorting an Array. Which sorting will you prefer?
• What is the time complexity of this program?
• What are the methods available in a class?
• What is final, finally, finalize?
• Write a program for Overriding.
• What is Runtime polymorphism?

• Tell me about a time when you have provided good customer service.
• Please give an example of a situation where you had to make a difficult decision. What was the outcome?
• Please give an example of a time you worked as part of a team during a difficult period.

Excerpts from Interview #3:

• Where are the global variables stored?
• Can you tell me the difference between semaphore and mutex.
• Why do we need inter process communication?
• Give a real time example of stack
• Write a code to achieve inter processor communication (mutual exclusion implementation pseudo code)?
• Why are local variables stored in stack?
• List some Advantages of switch-case over if else?
• Why do we need threads?
• Questions from students resume specific to their projects and hobbies

• Introduce yourself.
• Questions related to aptitude.
• Which section did you do well in your written test for HP?
• Why do you want to join HP?
• Questions about family background.

Excerpts from Interview #4:

• Tell me something about the concept of memory leak?
• Which process/directory is responsible for the kernel is decompressed during boot up?
• Given a Pid, how will you distinguish whether it is a process or a thread?
• An array having 100 elements have numbers from 1 to 99 randomly out of which any number is repeated. Find the repeated number in minimum time and space complexity.

• Where you would see 5 years down the lane.
• Why have you applied for a role at HP?
• Who are HP’s main competitors?
• What are HP’s objectives for the coming year?
• Do you know about the CEO of our company?

Excerpts from Interview #5:

• Questions related to networking models
• Questions on basic concepts of Java skills
• Questions on Sorting algorithms and time complexity of various algorithms.
• Questions on implementation of stack and queues.

• Tell me about your native?
• Are you ready to re locate to an entirely different city?
• How are you different from your classmates to be appointed in HP?

Excerpts from Interview #6:

• Give an example of circular linked list in windows system?
• Why is OOP good?
• Can you tell me about the concept of ER diagrams?
• Explain what role entity and relationship play in an ER diagram.
• Difference between process and thread.
• What are virtual functions?

• Questions were asked about the projects undertaken during trainings?
• Basic puzzles like 24 horses puzzle.
• Questions related to the languages that have been mentioned in the resume.
• How will you react to a certain situation in a company?