TCS Interview Experience- What and how you need to prepare
TCS-‘Experience Certainty’, and I experienced that! It was my first
interview and the best one. I was among the top five students from my
branch and so I was exempted from the online aptitude test, but not from
online Verbal ability(VA) test. VA requires one to compose an email
with a minimum of 70 words and maximum of 100 to 120 words with a list
of phrases mentioned.
For Aptitude the best volume to follow is CAT materials from TIME.
Once you are done with Aptitude and verbal ability test you can view your result in your TCS Next Step portal.
On the day of my interview we had only one round i.e T.R (technical
round), H.R, and M.R (Managerial round) all together at once. Total of 9
panels, each with 3 interviewers.
I stepped in with a smile and received a similar smile from all three
interviewers. They had a look at my resume and then it started. The
very first question was “Name the top three technologies which are in
trend? ”. I was a bit prepared with the answer so without thinking much I
replied “1. Mobile Applications 2. Augmented reality and 3. Big
data”.By hearing the word BIG DATA there was a sarcastic smile on their
face and with the same smile they asked “Tell us more about big data
”. I was positive with my attitude and with full confidence I started
“Sir, Big data is nothing but data which is large and complex and
is beyond the capability of traditional database…… (did not complete)”.
One of the interviewees interrupted and ask “Tell me what is the
difference between Data and Big Data?”, “How big data are different
from the relation database?” . I had bit knowledge about big data so
could answer them easily. From here the question flow was now directed
to Databases. I have done my project on databases (Automatic
database retrieval schema) so I was grilled on databases and on my
project. Same question were :
“What inspired you to take up this project ?”
“What was your role in your Project ?”
“Was this project made by you or you took help from someone? ”
“Problem statement of your project ?”
“Describe your project in just one line?”
I answered all these questions honestly and with a smile. Just one
simple tip, while answering anything related to project always use terms
like “My team and I ”, “We as a team”,”We..”. This gives a feeling
of teamwork.
Now I was asked about the concepts of Testing and the question were like
“Did you test your project ?”
“Which testing strategies did you follow with your project ?”
“At which stage did you test your project- before starting of the
project or after partially completing or after the project was
completed. When ?“
“What are the different testing strategies available for testing ? And which is the best one ?”
After this I was asked on SQL query
“What is a Query ?”
“Can we write same query in different forms ?” (the answer is Yes!)
“Can you give some example for the same ?”
“Write few queries from your project ?”
Now the toughest part of my interview was about to begin.
Suddenly all three of my interviewers starting asking me questions one after the other. Some of the questions were
“What are pointers in C ?”
“What is OSI reference model ?”
“Difference between OSI and TCP/IP reference model ? ”
“What are joints ?”
“What is SDLC?”
“What are different stages in SDLC?”
“How many types of joints are available ?”
“What is a difference between joints and unions ?”
“Define data structure ?”
I was very precise with my answers by keeping them short and
appropriate. By now I knew that I was in the latter stage of my
interview process. It ended with some easy go questions like:
“Why TCS ?”
“Where do you see yourself after 5 years ?”
That’s it folks!. There was a positive vibe in the room which made me
feel that I was in, but still was waiting for the results. Finally the
results were out and as expected, I was through my first interview.
For all the TCS aspirants, concentrate more on your project,
databases, C, Java, SDLC, Computer networks (just the rudiments) and
Testing (basics).
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