The interview process would be split into two days.

Day 1

Group Discussion: This isn't your average GD where you discuss a topic, but rather a round where you would be given a topic and the recruiting team would ask you to speak about it. The main objective of this round is to check the applicant’s fluency. Everyone would be given an opportunity to speak, so you need not have to compete for it.

Aptitude test: This round would have questions in Quant, data interpretation and verbal. It would also contain a technical aptitude, where the questions would be asked from storage, server architecture, and a little bit of computer networks. I remember having questions from RAID technology, SAN, NAS, DAS, NUMA architecture, a little bit of processor technology, and computer networks.

Technical Interview: I was asked about computers in general, a little bit about the Blue Screen of Death, a little bit about the Intel processor family and new processors currently under development. I was asked what the difference is between i3, i5, and i7. The interviewer also asked me about troubleshooting and would see your approach rather than the answer. In my case, I was asked as to how I would solve no internet in my own laptop.

Day 2

Teach back round: This is the round where a presentation would be given by the technical staff, and we need to explain those technologies back in the interview. One take from this is that they may ask you to implement these technologies to see as to how much of this you understood. They might also stress test you here, putting you under pressure and seeing as to how you perform under stress. Just stay calm, and it should convince them that you can take stress.

Managerial round: In this, they would also ask about your expectations from the company, would you be comfortable with some of the company policies like night shifts, and as to why you would want this job. You need to justify yourself to the interviewer. Since the profile is of a solutions consultant, they might ask you if you have fancy projects as to why you would not want a full-time coding job and choose this. The interviewer here tried his best to make it comfortable for me and to make an actual conversation; the round ended by us talking about chess.

HR Interview: If you have got to here, this round is just a formality. The HR would explain your package breakdown and would, in general, ask you as to how sure you are about joining HPE. They would explain to you about the internship that is mandatory before joining.

Post interview process: You would be asked to fill a form and wait for the formalities, as there would be a photo session, etc.

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