DXC Technology: Recruitment Process and Interview Pattern (2026)

DXC Technology’s campus recruitment runs three rounds: an AMCAT-based online assessment, a technical interview, and an HR interview.

The company appears on placement calendars at engineering colleges across India, including Tier-2 and Tier-3 institutions in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Karnataka. Knowing the test structure before you sit it is the single most effective preparation move. This article covers the full process.

About DXC Technology

DXC Technology was formed on April 1, 2017, through the merger of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Enterprise Services division. It is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker DXC. Per the DXC Technology careers portal, the company operates in over 70 countries and employs more than 130,000 professionals globally.

In India, DXC maintains delivery centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Noida, and Pune. Services span cloud infrastructure, application development, analytics, security, and business process outsourcing. For freshers, the entry-level designation is Associate Professional Software Engineer, though post-joining titles vary by business unit.

Detail	Information
Founded	April 1, 2017
Headquarters	Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA
Stock exchange	NYSE: DXC
Employees globally	130,000+
Key India locations	Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Noida, Pune
Entry-level role	Associate Professional Software Engineer

DXC is not a product company in the FAANG sense. It is an IT services firm operating on client contracts, which means fresher work typically involves maintaining and extending enterprise systems rather than building new ones from scratch. That context matters when you frame your expectations around day-one responsibilities.

Eligibility Criteria

DXC Technology publishes consistent eligibility criteria across its campus drives. The core requirements:

• Degree: BE, B.Tech, B.Sc (IT/CS), BCA, or MCA from a recognised institution
• Academic cutoff: 60% or 6.0 CGPA throughout 10th, 12th, and degree (some drives specify 6.5 CGPA — check the specific drive notification)
• Backlogs: No active backlogs at the time of application or joining
• Education gap: Not more than one year between consecutive qualifications
• Batch: Drive notifications specify eligible graduation years; confirm on the official careers page before applying

The 60% rule applies across all three academic levels, not just degree, per PacketPrep’s DXC recruitment guide. A 78% in degree with a 58% in 10th makes a candidate ineligible at most drives. This is a common oversight students miss when checking eligibility.

ECE and EEE branches are sometimes eligible for non-core software roles. The specific branch list is stated in each drive notification. Do not assume branch eligibility from a generic source.

Online Assessment: Pattern and Syllabus

DXC Technology’s online test runs on the AMCAT platform and is 100 minutes long. There are six sections, taken in a fixed order. Navigation between sections is not permitted, and no question can be revisited once you move on. There is no negative marking.

Section	Questions	Duration
English	12	15 minutes
Logical Reasoning	14	14 minutes
Quantitative Ability (Advanced)	16	16 minutes
Computer Programming	12	15 minutes
Automata Fix	7	20 minutes
Writex Pro (Essay Writing)	1	20 minutes
Total	62	100 minutes

Per PacketPrep’s recruitment breakdown, the topic coverage for each section is as follows.

English

Vocabulary, sentence completion, sentence improvement, para jumbles, phrasal verbs, fill-in-the-blanks, idioms and phrases, and grammar. Reading comprehension-style passages sometimes appear in the verbal section.

Logical Reasoning

Odd man out, coding and decoding, blood relations, direction sense, number and letter series, data sufficiency, data interpretation, and data arrangements. The coding-decoding and data arrangement types appear most frequently in DXC’s pattern.

Quantitative Ability (Advanced)

Simplification, time and work, probability, profit and loss, averages, simple and compound interest, HCF and LCM, number systems, linear equations, surds and indices, partnerships, permutation and combination. The “Advanced” label indicates a higher difficulty band than the standard AMCAT quant section.

Computer Programming

Pseudocode interpretation, basic data structures, fundamentals of programming (data types, operators, arrays, pattern-printing, math-based problems, functions, pointers), basics of operating systems, loops, functions, classes and objects, operator precedence, inheritance, graphs, trees, and OOP concepts.

Automata Fix

The Automata Fix section gives you partially written programs to complete or debug. Languages: C, C++, or Java. Question types include fresh coding, code reuse from a library, and debugging. Key topics: programming fundamentals, arrays, strings, recursion, functions, flow control, linked lists, and graphs.

This is the section that most directly separates candidates by coding depth. Students who have solved C programs asked in technical interviews including pattern printing, arrays, and string manipulation will find the Automata Fix section faster to work through than those who have only drilled aptitude.

Writex Pro (Essay Writing)

One essay prompt with a 400-word limit and a 20-minute timer. Topics are typically general awareness or technology-related. Focus on a clear thesis, structured paragraphs, and grammar accuracy rather than elaborate vocabulary.

Technical Interview

Candidates who clear the online assessment proceed to a technical interview, which typically runs 20 to 30 minutes. The interviewer draws from your resume, projects, and core subjects.

What to prepare:

• Your projects: Be specific about your contribution, technology stack, and any challenges you resolved. Vague answers here are a red flag.
• OOP concepts: Polymorphism, encapsulation, abstraction, and inheritance. Function overloading is a common starting point for C++ and Java OOP questions.
• Data structures: Arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. Know time complexities.
• DBMS: SQL syntax, joins, keys (primary, foreign, candidate), and normalisation basics.
• Operating systems: Process management, memory management, scheduling, and virtual memory.
• Networking basics: OSI model layers, TCP/IP, DNS, and routers.

The C programming interview questions that appear most in technical rounds (calloc vs malloc, pointer arithmetic, memory allocation) also appear in DXC’s tech round. Similarly, conceptual C programming questions on control flow and function behaviour are worth covering.

Sample question types from DXC technical interviews:

• Differentiate between calloc() and malloc()
• Explain polymorphism with an example
• What are the layers of the OSI model?
• Write a program to print the Fibonacci series
• What is the difference between SQL and PL/SQL?
• Explain process synchronisation and IPC in Unix

Having two or three projects you can explain end-to-end is more useful than memorising a list of definitions. Interviewers at DXC typically probe one project for 10 to 15 minutes before moving to concept questions.

HR Interview

The HR round is the final stage. It is conversational and runs 15 to 20 minutes. Questions focus on your background, communication, and alignment with the role.

Common questions:

• Tell me about yourself
• Where do you see yourself in five years?
• Why do you want to join DXC Technology?
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• Are you willing to relocate?
• Are you comfortable with rotational shifts?
• What do you know about DXC as a company?

On the last point: know the merger story (CSC plus HP Enterprise Services, 2017), the services DXC offers, and the India cities it operates in. Interviewers occasionally check whether a candidate bothered to look up the company before walking in.

Documents to carry to the interview venue: updated resume, Aadhaar card (original and photocopy), three passport-size photographs, and photocopies of all educational certificates.

From Coding Rounds to AI-Adjacent Roles

The Automata Fix section and the Computer Programming section together test whether you can read, fix, and write working code under time pressure. That is the baseline for IT services roles at DXC.

For students targeting roles where you build and ship AI-enabled features, the gap between AMCAT-level coding prep and production-grade AI development is real but bridgeable. TinkerLLM is a low-commitment starting point: ₹299 for hands-on LLM exercises that go from prompting to tool-calling, the kind of applied layer that rounds like Automata Fix do not test but that product companies increasingly expect at the fresher hire stage.

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For the official list of open positions and drive dates, check the DXC Technology careers portal directly. Drive-specific eligibility and batch requirements change per intake; always verify from the source before applying.