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Overview
Section titled “Overview”These Dell interview notes are rewritten from public student posts and prep-site summaries. Your panel can still look different.
Usual flow: Resume shortlist → Online assessment (HirePro, MCQ) → 1-2 Technical interviews → Managerial/HR
Shortlisting is heavily filtered - one report had ~600 applicants down to 90 shortlisted, then 12 into interviews, 5 into the final round.
What technical rounds look like
Section titled “What technical rounds look like”Project deep-dive (verifying you actually built it), CS fundamentals (OS, DBMS, OOPs, CN - OSI model, CPU scheduling, encapsulation), C++ (linked lists, interfaces, friend functions), coding (merge intervals, delete nth node from linked list), DevOps tools (Git, Maven, Docker); Business Analyst track adds data-interpretation MCQs, SQL joins/nested queries, and estimation/puzzle questions (coin-weighing, water-jar).
What HR rounds look like
Section titled “What HR rounds look like”Resume/internship/skills discussion, relocation and location preference, teamwork/conflict-resolution behavioural questions; generally described as easy relative to the technical rounds.
What students reported
Section titled “What students reported”Student report 1 - gfg dell sde-1 interview experience (2022)
Section titled “Student report 1 - gfg dell sde-1 interview experience (2022)”Resume shortlist (600 → 90) → OA on HirePro (60 min, 50 MCQs: 10 aptitude + DBMS/OS/networking/OOPs/C++/Java/SQL/DS) → Tech round 1 (45 min, Teams: projects, OSI model, C++, coding - merge intervals + delete-nth-node, DevOps) → Managerial+HR (30 min: internships, Azure, hackathon, teamwork). 3 offers given out of ~12 interviewed; candidate got Intern+FTE offer.
Student report 2 - gfg dell set 8 on-campus
Section titled “Student report 2 - gfg dell set 8 on-campus”Software Developer track: OA (aptitude + technical MCQ on recursion/DBMS/trees/OOP + C++/Java output questions) → Technical interview (projects, OOP, testing, C++, GitHub, deployment, teamwork) → HR (resume/academics/location). Business Analyst track (same drive) instead ran a data-interpretation MCQ test, a panel interview with puzzles (9-coin, water-jar) and SQL/schema-design questions, then a managerial round and HR. Candidate received the Software Developer offer as first preference.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”- Dell Technologies Interview Experience for SDE-1 - GFG (gfg)
- Dell Interview Experience Set 8 (On-Campus) - GFG (gfg)
- Dell Technologies careers (other)
These notes come from public reports and can differ by campus, year, and role. If your college placement email or the official careers/notification PDF says something different, follow that.
Related
Section titled “Related”HR interview
Section titled “HR interview”After technical rounds, Dell usually closes with a short HR / hiring-manager conversation: motivation, location, notice period, and a couple of behavioural stories. Prepare those answers on the dedicated page rather than cramming them into this hub.