My TCS Interview Experience

Hello Friends ,
I am Ranjeet Kumar pursuing MCA form JSS Academy of technical education Noida. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) team of around 20 people visited our campus on 27 Jan. for campus placement. On the behalf of my college students I would like to thank the Chetana Interview team for their work as well as all those people who contributed the papers because those were very helpful for the preparation for TCS.
I would like to share my experience with other people who are preparing for the TCS as think that that will be helpful for the entire upcoming visitor who want to prepare for TCS. The recruitment procedure for TCS consist the following four rounds:
1.Online Test
2.Technical Interview
3.H.R. Interview
1.ONLINE TEST :
Online test was conducted for JSS students on 27 Jan for all MCA students and for the students of all the branches of BTech . The test started around 10:30 A.M. after pre-placement session. You will be given Login Id and password. Firstly there was a sample test and instruction for the test. They will also give instructions orally so listen carefully everything. The TCS people will be all time there during the test so for any clarification ask them for a help. Remember that:
• There is no negative marking.
• No higher cut-off.
• There was no section cut-off.(but I think that there was a minimum cut-off for individual section because some students were not able to clear the test because they were unable to score in a particular section).
• Don’t click on the EXIT Button; otherwise your test will be finished at that point.
• You can jump to any question within a particular section, but you can not jump sections. On R.H.S. there is a display of Q.No. The answered questions appears in Green color, unanswered but visited questions in some other color(orange ) and unvisited questions in other color.
• A clock on the top corner of the right hand side displays the reaming time so please keep track of the time.
There were 3 Sections in the test: ---
A.VEBAL SECTION (32 QUSETIONS 20 MINUTES):
10 antonyms, 10 synonyms, 1 Reading comparison heaving 6 question and one passage for fill in the blank with 6 questions. Most of the antonyms and synonyms were form Barron’s GRE (you should refer 12th edition for this section). Only prepare exercises given in the back of word list. There are 50 word lists in the book but you need not to mug all of them only 20 will also work. Start preparing a lot ahead of for this because it will take a lot of time because most of the words are hard to remember. It will take hardly 6-8 minutes to complete antonyms and synonyms because there are only two possibilities, either you know the answer or not. In the remaining time you can attempt RC & fill in the blanks. RC passage on Share Market and Investment,buildigs & appartment, I have seen it somewhere but I don’t remember where exactly (most probably in barrons’s). The passage for fill- in the blanks I don’t remembered. But key point in fill-in the blank question is that there were not 5 options to fill the blanks. Instead it options were only 6 choices written and we have to fill each options by selecting it from a drop down menu. So please take care of this.
B. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE ( 38 QUES, 40 MINUTES):
The most easy and scoring section. You need not to do anything. No need to buy R. S. Agarwal or something else. Just practice 5-10 sample papers form chetnainterview that will be more than enough.
C. CRITICAL REASONING (12 QUESETIONS, 30 MINUTES) :
Don’t think that it is enough time to solve this section. Actually this section is from the model test papers of Barron’s 12 th edition. It consists of 3 paragraphs containing 4 questions each. If you have practiced a lot than you will able to do this section within 5 minutes, otherwise the case may be that you will not able to answer even a single question from it, because some questions are very tricky and you hardly can do them if you are doing them first time. So please prepare the questions form 5 test papers and only solve those paragraphs which contain 4 or more questions. Don’t let this work pending till last day. Don’t need to mug up all the answers just know the method. Only some questions need to be mug up. There is no important passage as we had paragraphs form all test papers. So don’t take chance in this section. I think that in this section the weightage was higher than other sections. In my paper they asked the question on Prithu and Brithu marriages from test paper 5(they changed some name, but don’t worry if you know how to attempt then you will able to solve it and those who have mugged up it also don’t worry because the starting alphabet of the name of the characters was same, so still you can attempt it. Second paragraph was on Scurvy problem and it was also form test paper 5. Third passage was and selecting two professor form large university and one form small college.
They declared the result of all 510 students around 9 p.m.. And we were told that interview will start in 10 minutes.
After written test they give us a form to fill it.Along with the form u must have a passport size photograph to paste on the form.Due to our Test-1 exams we were out of touch with other technical subject and were thinking that we will revise Technical part in the rest of the day. And luckily I got the chance to prepare for technical as my interview along with all the students whom roll no. lies after me was announced to be on the next day at 3 p.m.. So we were ready for interviews. Out of total around 510 students around 210 students cleared the written test.
TECHNICAL INTERVIEW:
This was first time I was giving interview. So I was a little nervous before entering in the interview room. My throat was totally dry and I was thinking that I will not be able to answer their questions. But I had to face the interview and I was asked to go to panel no 3. There were three people there(2 gents & 1 lady). I took their permissions to enter in the cabin and wished good afternoon to them. They asked me to sit down. Some of the question that I am able to recall at this time are:-
Sir: Tell me something about yourself.
Me: I told
Mem:What is your area of interest..
ME: mem C,C++,DBMS
Sir: what is pointers?
Me: explained.
Sir: what is structure?
Me: explained.
Sir: What is the difference between structure & union?
Me: I explained, with the help of diagram.
Sir: Could you explain preorder traversal
ME: Yes,I explain it with the help of diagram.
Sir: What r the subjects in your 2 sem
Me: I told them .
Sir: well as you have OS in your 2 sem so tell me the hierarichal structure of data storage.
Me:I explain.
SIR:Is there any difference b/w secondary memory and secondary storage.
ME:No, sir
SIR: They started laughing
Sir: what is paging..
Me: I explain..
Sir: Is there any difference b/w paging and swapping.
Me: I replied with a smile….
Sir: what r the different layers in TCP/IP
Me:Explained..
Sir: Tell Different types of Data Structures and give example..
ME: Explained
Sir: Tell different types of linked list..
Me: Explained..but they were trying to confuse me…….
Sir: When we use pointers and when array?
Me: explained..
Sir: What are constructors and what will happen if we don’t define constructor?
Me: Explained….Compiler will automatically initialize ….
Sir: What is virtual table?
ME: I think that they were asking view form DBMS. So I asked them Sir, are you asking from DBMS?
Sir: no no from C++
Me: I politely said that I don’t know virtual table in C++
MEM:As all the main branches of TCS r in Southern part of India. So Will u feel comfortable there
Me: Yes,Ofcourse
MEM: If v send u abroad
Me:Well initially I’ll not feel comfortable there but after some time I’ll definitely manage there.
MEM:As your father is in transfereable job so don’t have u feel any inconvenience in your studies.
Me:No mem well after my highschool, v have been setteled in lucknow and anly my father travels.
MEM: smile.
Sir: Do you have any questions?
Me: I want to be run away from those people…so I said no questions sir.and they said that U can leave now…..
So friends that was my first interview in life and it was not so much stress interview as I initially thought before interview After 40 minutes I was again called for the H.R. Interview.
H.R. INTERVIEW:
I asked the permission to enter in the cabin and wish good evening. . This time in the panel there was a young lady in suite. She asked me to come in and take the seat. Then someone called her, she asked for my permission and said that she will be back in one minute. She came and said sorry for keep me waiting. I said no problem mam. Then coffee came for her and she offered coffee to me…but I politely said no…
Mam: Tell me something about yourself?
Me: Explained…….
MEM: How was your test in the afternoon?
MEM: Rate yourself on the basis of previous interview?
Me: I said that my interview was good……….
MEM: Tell me about your 2 strong & Weak qualities?
Me: Told some what she was asking (tell the weak qualities which appears as strong one)
Mam: Do you know you have to give medical test in which we test color blindness and so on…
Me: I said that I’m aware of this..
Mam: So your hobbies are travelling and bike riding…do you have bike here in college and which places in india u have visited?
Me: Explaind….. Mam:Which is your Favorite bike Me:My own bike is my favorite bike. Mam:I’ll give u a puzzle u’ll solve it Mam:she explain the puzzle, Me:I solve it
Man: Are U ready to sign two years bond?
Me: Mam, for TATA’s I am ready to sign 10 years bond……
Mam: That’s great……do you have any questions?
Me: I said no mam……she said that I know that u haven’t taken anything since morning. So go and take your dinner. The results will be declared after 6 hours.
For any quarries and help you can contact: --- ranjeet.k.verma@gmail.com
ALL THE BEST AND HOPE THAT WE WILL MEET IN TCS