Completing the Big-5 service company map: Wipro and HCL — apply to all five, the prep is 90% shared.
Wipro NLTH (National Level Talent Hunt)
- Tiers: Project Engineer ~₹3.5 LPA · Elite ~₹4 LPA · Turbo ~₹6.5 LPA (harder coding bar)
- Pattern: aptitude (quant/logical/verbal) → essay writing (yes, typed essay — practice 200-word opinions in 10 minutes) → coding: 2 problems, any language
- The essay + verbal sections eliminate more candidates than coding — Wipro weights communication
HCL (₹3.5–4.5 LPA, TechBee for 12th-pass separate)
- Aptitude + computer fundamentals MCQs (OS/DBMS/CN one-liners — revise our DBMS/OS/CN crash posts)
- 1–2 easy coding questions; interview focuses on basics + flexibility (location/shift honesty matters)
The shared-prep insight
One prep stack covers TCS+Infosys+Wipro+Cognizant+HCL+Accenture: aptitude speed, pseudocode reading, 30 easy coding problems, CS fundamentals one-liners, and clear spoken English. Build it once (judge + question bank), apply to all six, and let probability work.