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NYSE-listed maker of PCs, printers and workstations, with an India business run out of Bengaluru

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About the company

Founded

1939 as Hewlett-Packard; HP Inc. created November 1, 2015 after the split

CEO

Bruce Broussard, Interim Chief Executive Officer

Industry

Technology: personal computers, printers, workstations and imaging

Employees

About 55,000 globally (2025); about 1,666 at HP India Sales Private Limited (Aug 2025)

Revenue (FY2025)

USD 55.29 billion; India entity revenue INR 24,762 crore (FY2025)

Market Cap

About USD 22.95 billion (July 23, 2026)

Listed on

NYSE: HPQ

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California, USA (Stanford Research Park); India head office at Embassy Prime, Bagmane Tech Park, CV Raman Nagar, Bengaluru 560093

HP Inc. is the American personal computing and printing company created on November 1, 2015, when the original Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939, split into two firms. HP Inc. kept the PC, printer, scanner, monitor and 3D printing businesses, while the enterprise server and services side became Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It trades on the NYSE as HPQ and is headquartered at Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto, California. Fiscal 2025 revenue was USD 55.29 billion with net income of USD 2.53 billion, and the company employs roughly 55,000 people worldwide.

The product line splits into Personal Systems, which covers consumer brands like Pavilion, Envy and Omen plus commercial brands like ProBook, EliteBook and Z workstations, and Printing. In fiscal Q2 2026 Personal Systems brought in USD 10.2 billion and Printing USD 4.2 billion of the USD 14.4 billion quarterly total. HP is pushing AI PCs hard: they reached 44% of shipments by mid-2026, and the company signed a strategic partnership with OpenAI in June 2026 to run its Frontier platform across customer support, sales and internal software development.

In India, HP operates through HP India Sales Private Limited, incorporated in Bengaluru on September 2, 1997 and formerly known as Compaq Computer (India) Private Limited. The entity reported FY2025 revenue of INR 24,762 crore, up about 11% year on year, with roughly 1,666 employees on its rolls. HP runs offices in Bengaluru, Gurugram, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata, and Ipsita Dasgupta leads the India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka business. In May 2026 HP India launched more than 20 new products, including the India-first HP OmniPad 12 and the HP EliteBoard G1a AI keyboard PC.

Key People

Bruce Broussard

Interim Chief Executive Officer

Karen Parkhill

Chief Financial Officer

Chip Bergh

Chairman of the Board

Ipsita Dasgupta

Managing Director, HP India Market (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka)

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Interview process at HP

(Based on 476 interview reports from India)

Interview experience

8 out of 10, rated favourable

Interview difficulty

Medium, 6 out of 10

Interview process length

About a week for most candidates

Overall experience

PoorExcellent
EasyDifficult

How long the process takes

About a day or two23%
About a week31%
About a month33%
More than one month14%

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HP Interview Questions & Answers

Q: What is the volatile storage specifier and where is it used?

A: volatile tells the compiler that a variable can change outside the program's control, so it must reload the value from memory on every access instead of caching it in a register. In firmware you use it for memory-mapped hardware registers, variables shared with an interrupt service routine, and flags touched by another thread.

Answer by AI
  • Define it as a compiler hint that disables optimisation of reads and writes for that variable.
  • Name the three classic firmware cases: hardware registers, ISR-shared flags, and multi-threaded shared state.
  • Close by noting volatile isn't a synchronisation primitive, so you still need atomics or locks for race safety.

Q: How are vectors internally implemented in STL?

A: A vector holds a pointer to a contiguous heap buffer plus a size and a capacity. When you push past capacity it allocates a larger block, typically 1.5x or 2x, moves or copies the elements over, and frees the old block, which gives amortised constant-time appends.

Answer by AI
  • Describe the three members: data pointer, size, capacity.
  • Explain geometric growth and why it makes push_back amortised O(1).
  • Mention that reallocation invalidates iterators and pointers, and that reserve avoids repeat copies.

Q: Construct a class in C++ such that you get an error when the object is created statically but not when created dynamically.

A: Make the destructor private. Stack objects need an accessible destructor at the point of declaration, so a static or automatic instance won't compile, while new still works because destruction is deferred. Expose a public destroy() member that calls delete this.

Answer by AI
  • State the trick: a private (or protected) destructor blocks stack allocation but not new.
  • Sketch the class with a public static create() factory and a public destroy() that calls delete this.
  • Explain why the compiler needs destructor access for automatic storage duration.

Q: Write a program to check for cycle detection in a linked list.

A: Use Floyd's tortoise and hare: advance one pointer by a single node and another by two. If they ever meet there's a cycle; if the fast pointer hits null, there isn't. It runs in O(n) time with O(1) extra space.

Answer by AI
  • Walk through Floyd's two-pointer loop and the meeting condition.
  • Give the complexity: O(n) time, O(1) space, and contrast with the hash-set approach that costs O(n) space.
  • Add the follow-up: reset one pointer to head and step both by one to find the cycle's start node.

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HP Salaries in India (Updated 2026)

Software Engineer

Reported average

₹11,76,957/yr

13 Salaries submitted

Firmware Engineer

Reported average

₹11,49,855/yr

13 Salaries submitted

Senior Software Engineer

Reported average

₹13,96,344/yr

6 Salaries submitted

Cloud Engineer

Reported average

₹12,57,000/yr

8 Salaries submitted

Developer

Reported average

₹7,19,350/yr

7 Salaries submitted

Program Manager

Reported average

₹14,83,386/yr

10 Salaries submitted

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Benefits

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance and disability cover (reported by 10 employees)
Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
Long-term and temporary disability insurance
Stock bonus
Defined contribution pension plan (401(k) in the US, provident fund in India)
Severance pay
Prepaid legal cover
Paid sick leave (reported by 28 employees)
Paid holidays and vacation (reported by 27 employees)
Flexible schedule and flex-time (reported by 13 employees)
Optional work from home or telecommute (reported by 9 employees)
Work-life balance rated 4.0 out of 5 by India reviewers
Company laptop or notebook computer (reported by 12 employees)
Casual dress and informal work atmosphere (reported by 15 employees)
Learning opportunities called out in India employee reviews
Employee transport (pick-up and drop) at India sites

Latest News & Updates

June 28, 2026

HP signs strategic partnership with OpenAI for the Frontier platform

HP became one of the first global enterprises to adopt OpenAI's Frontier platform at scale, covering customer and partner experiences, telemetry insights through its Workforce Experience Platform, employee productivity and software development. The deal followed an exploratory phase that began in February 2026.

#AI #Partnership #FutureOfWork

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May 27, 2026

HP reports fiscal 2026 second quarter revenue of $14.4 billion

Net revenue rose 9.0% year on year, with Personal Systems up 13% to $10.2 billion and Printing flat at $4.2 billion. Non-GAAP diluted EPS was $0.86 and HP guided full-year non-GAAP EPS of $2.90 to $3.10.

#Earnings #PersonalSystems #Printing

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May 13, 2026

HP India launches 20+ products including the India-first OmniPad 12

HP India unveiled more than 20 products across personal systems, print and workforce solutions, including the HP OmniPad 12 from Rs 48,999 and the HP EliteBoard G1a AI keyboard PC from Rs 89,900. New Z workstations and AI stations were also announced.

#IndiaLaunch #AIPC #ProductNews

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February 3, 2026

Enrique Lores steps down, Bruce Broussard named interim CEO

HP announced that Enrique Lores stepped down as President and CEO and that board member Bruce Broussard took over as interim CEO with immediate effect. Chairman Chip Bergh said the board formed a search committee for a permanent successor.

#Leadership #CEOTransition

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November 26, 2025

HP to cut 4,000 to 6,000 jobs by 2028 in an AI-led restructuring

Alongside fiscal 2025 results, HP said it would reduce headcount across product development, internal operations and customer support to reach $1 billion in gross run-rate savings by the end of fiscal 2028. Restructuring costs were put at about $650 million, with $250 million in fiscal 2026.

#Layoffs #Restructuring #AI

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HP FAQ

No. The original Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939, split on November 1, 2015. HP Inc. kept the PC, printer, scanner, monitor and 3D printing businesses and trades on the NYSE as HPQ. The enterprise server and services side became a separate company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.