HR interview questions
Common L&T HR questions, sample answer frames, and STAR tips.
L&T Interview Experiences
How Larsen & Toubro fresher interviews usually run, campus and off-campus. Patterns shift by year and role, so treat this as a prep map, not a script.
L&T placement process in 2026 (from student reports) includes: 1. Online Assessment (90 minutes) - 30-50 questions covering technical concepts, aptitude, reasoning, and domain-specific knowledge. 2. Technical Interview Round 1 (60 minutes) - Technical concepts, problem-solving, coding problems, and project discussions. 3. Technical Interview Round 2 (60 minutes) - Advanced…
Eligibility (from student reports): 7.0+ CGPA or 70% throughout academic career (10th, 12th, and graduation).
Fresher package ballpark (from student reports): Analyst: ₹8-15 LPA. Confirm on your offer letter.
Round-wise process
Section titled “Round-wise process”| Round | Duration | What they test |
|---|---|---|
| Online / Written Test | 90-120 min | Aptitude + domain / basic coding |
| Technical Interview | 30-45 min | Core subjects or IT fundamentals |
| HR | 20-30 min | Location, shifts, motivation |
Real interview experiences
Section titled “Real interview experiences”One caution before the accounts: “L&T” is several different employers. Larsen & Toubro (the EPC / construction / heavy-engineering parent) hires GETs across all branches; L&T Technology Services (LTTS) and LTIMindtree are separate listed companies with their own, more IT-services-style funnels. Write-ups get filed under “L&T” indiscriminately, so check which entity your placement email names. The notes below are about the parent-company GET route, rewritten from public student posts.
Experience 1: Graduate Engineer Trainee, on-campus (2022, all branches)
Section titled “Experience 1: Graduate Engineer Trainee, on-campus (2022, all branches)”Reported round 1 - online assessment (elimination)
- Run on L&T’s own EduTech platform, not a third-party judge.
- Two parts: general aptitude - analytical, verbal, numerical ability - and a branch-specific technical section. There was no DSA-style coding component in this account.
Reported round 2 - interview, ~15-20 minutes, with an extempore
- Short by campus standards, and it moved fast.
- Technical questions in this account ran wide rather than deep: DBMS vs RDBMS, primary key vs foreign key, current SQL version, Android vs iOS, what Bitcoin is, and where ML / AI / deep learning show up in consumer devices like Alexa.
- HR content in the same sitting: background, technologies studied, hobbies, role models, career goals.
- Extempore: the candidate picked one of Blockchain or Cloud Computing and spoke on it. Other reported topics are current-affairs-flavoured - EV adoption in India and its future scope came up in another account.
What aggregated candidate reports add
Section titled “What aggregated candidate reports add”- A psychometric section is common and catches people off guard: roughly 86 MCQs in about 20 minutes, aimed at values and character fit rather than ability. It is fast enough that overthinking is the failure mode; answer consistently.
- The technical interview is built around your favourite subjects and your project. Core candidates report being asked to name subjects and then taken into them, plus depth on the project - what you used, why you chose it, why that field.
- Assessment length is commonly ~90 minutes, but the composition varies by entity and cycle - some L&T-group drives run a 30-MCQ-plus-2-coding format instead.
- The funnel usually ends with a medical exam, and the HR round is where compensation is discussed.
- Aggregated Glassdoor reports put the difficulty at medium, with a large majority calling it a fair assessment; the hiring process averages roughly three weeks.
Sources: GeeksforGeeks - Larsen & Toubro on-campus 2022 · GeeksforGeeks - L&T interview experience · Glassdoor - Larsen & Toubro interviews · Glassdoor - LTTS Graduate Engineer Trainee
Questions that come up often
Section titled “Questions that come up often”Coding / technical
Section titled “Coding / technical”- Basic array / string coding. Usually expects clear logic
- OOPs or domain follow-ups. Usually expects fundamentals
- Explain a project end-to-end. Usually expects clarity and ownership
- Discussion on core engineering and project sites, bottlenecks, failure modes, simple APIs
- Detailed project discussion, architecture, hardest bug, what you would change
HR / behavioural
Section titled “HR / behavioural”- Why this company / business unit?
- Location flexibility
- How your project or internship maps to the role
- Long-term plans
Practical tips for Larsen & Toubro
Section titled “Practical tips for Larsen & Toubro”- Clear the screening round first. Timed practice beats last-minute topic hopping.
- For domain questions, explain core engineering in plain language, inputs, outputs, what breaks at scale.
- OOPs and SQL still open a lot of Larsen & Toubro panels. Do not skip fundamentals.
- HR answers should be concrete. One story with a result beats five slogans.
- If you do not know something, say so and outline how you would find out.
HR interview
Section titled “HR interview”After technical rounds, L&T 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.