They held an interview in the oncampus selections. It was a simple face to face interview, the HR basically asking all the questions that an HR could ask -tell me about yourself -what your weaknesses and strengths -why HCL? will you trump our offer if you get placed in any other company like IBM or Dell? -can you work under pressure -you'll have to learn different technologies within a week or two at most sometimes, for some projects. Are you game for such career challenges? Will you be able to handle that? -are you flexible enough to switch locations quick enough for project requirements as per the company's needs? -tell me about your family -tell me what you know about the IT industry -tell me HOW the IT industry serves so many needs and solves problems. Why and where do we fit in? What's your significance? -tell me about the different SDLCs. Explain one of them -tell me about the projects you've done. what was your role in them? what did you learn? That's all I remember now. In all, the interview was ok. He gracefully shook my hands, and I had a feeling that I was selected. And I was. But then they delayed our joining. The first batch got their joining in the June of 2012 only, whereas others kept getting their joining in batches of 30-60 people. Sometimes only upto 20. All at Noida and Gurgaon. For the rest of us who didn't get their joining, they announced this FRP test that we took in Sept. 2012. I passed that, I was one of the 1300 something students who passed it, out of a total of 6000+ students who had gotten through the campus interviews [not sure if in other colleges only an HR interview was conducted, in my college, only the HR interview was conducted. No written test was taken on the campus] Anyways, the FRP was an okay test. It had objective type questions from Java,C,SQL,RDBMS, and Software Engineering in general. It was actually quite easy, but if you weren't prepared, it might have been difficult. Nothing over the moon complicated stuff. If you had your basics right and your logic sound, you easily could've passed that test. That's why I did. The results were declared in late October, 2012. They had told us that the joining would be given within 2 weeks of declaration of the results of the test, to those who passed it. Fast forward to March 2013, no joining still, and I get an email that says that joining will be given to those who passed the FRP and then to those who didn't. But August 2013 onwards. Then in June suddenly, I get this email that I'm supposed to join them in Chennai, by June last week.