Finished my HP loop about six weeks ago for a senior SWE role on their cloud print infrastructure team. Sharing what I saw because I couldn't find much recent info when I was prepping.
Round structure: Recruiter screen (30 min, mostly resume walkthrough and "why HP") Hiring manager call (45 min, pretty conversational, asked about distributed systems background) Technical screen 1: coding, two LeetCode-style problems, both medium, one was a graph traversal variant Technical screen 2: system design. I got "design a notification delivery system for a fleet of printers." Niche, but actually pretty interesting. They cared more about fault tolerance than pure scale Behavioral panel: 3 people, 1 hour. Heavy STAR format. Questions about cross-team conflict, delivering under ambiguity, customer impact
What surprised me: the behavioral panel was taken seriously. Not just checkbox questions, they really probed my follow-up examples. The system design interviewer was also very collaborative, almost like a pair session.
What was meh: scheduling took forever. Each round had a 5-7 day gap and nobody proactively updated me. I pinged the recruiter twice. Both times they were responsive once I reached out, just not proactive.
Got an offer. Base was reasonable, RSUs vested over 4 years with a 1-year cliff. Didn't end up taking it but the loop itself was fine.