Hexaware Interview Questions & Answers 2026

Hexaware is a Mumbai-headquartered IT services and BPO company majority-owned by Carlyle Group. Known for its Automate Everything strategy and proprietary platforms like RapidX, Tensai. Strong in BFSI, healthcare, travel/transportation domains. Recently relisted on NSE/BSE in 2025 with one of India's largest IPOs.

Mention Hexaware's automation-first culture, strong domain expertise in BFSI and healthcare, opportunities to work on AI/ML projects through Tensai platform, and learning culture. Reference their employee growth from 28,000 to 32,000+ post-IPO and global delivery centers in India, Mexico, US.

Mention 2-3 strengths with examples: problem-solving (specific debugging experience), quick learner (new technology adopted), team player (collaborative project). Connect to Hexaware's needs: their automation-led delivery requires self-starters with strong technical curiosity.

SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) phases: Requirements gathering and analysis, Design (HLD/LLD), Implementation/Coding, Testing (unit, integration, system, UAT), Deployment, Maintenance. Models: Waterfall (sequential), Agile (iterative), Spiral (risk-driven), V-Model (validation parallel to development).

Java exceptions are objects representing errors. Hierarchy: Throwable -> Error (unrecoverable) and Exception -> RuntimeException (unchecked) and others (checked). Use try-catch-finally blocks. throw to raise, throws to declare. try-with-resources auto-closes resources. Best practices: catch specific exceptions, never swallow, log appropriately.

Deadlock occurs when threads wait for resources held by each other in a circular dependency. 4 conditions (Coffman): mutual exclusion, hold and wait, no preemption, circular wait. Prevention: lock ordering, timeout-based locks, deadlock detection (banker's algorithm), avoid nested locks where possible.

Armstrong: sum of digits raised to power of digit count equals number. E.g., 153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3 = 1+125+27. Algorithm: count digits, extract each digit, sum power, compare with original. Time O(log n) where log n is digit count.