TCS interview experience 2014 batch lucknow
So I am here with my sizzling TCS interview, I do not know it helps you to crack or not but I am sure it will certainly help to know interview process from somewhat close from where you are seeing until today.

Interview process was divided into 5 stages
1) Verbal ability
2) Aptitude (exempted for top -5 from each branch)
3) Technical Round
4) Managerial Round
5) HR Round

As I was among the top 5 in my branch I had to clear only verbal ability test i am giving you a brief detail about each round………………………
Verbal ability –

In Verbal ability test I had given a question to write an email to the supervisor for a picnic with a new team member for increasing bonding in them with a set of phrases.it was compulsory to use all the phrases given in the question .the best way to write the email in a world limit is
Dear Mr. Name (first name only whatever given in the question)
Body of letter(include all the phrases by combining words that make a sense and meaning given in question without spelling and grammatical errors you have to just good in basics of connecting words there is no upper limit but lower limit was 50 so do not write more than 75 words and not less than 50 words).
Regards,
Name (your first name given in question)

If you had written the way I described you can easily entered into the next level that is apti for non-toppers and technical for toppers.

Aptitude
Just prepare your basics from rs agarwaal book then choose arun sharma cat book and solve question up to level 2 as much as you can in 2 months if you do not have time just go for m4maths.com and try to solve at least 50 pages if you had done it you are in. many of my friends who followed the same pattern are cleared aptitude easily. Just follow to clear the basics strong your areas in which you are good ,do not mug up whole the concept ,you to clear only cutoff so take it easy and doing question from website will make you done it easily.


Technical
Technical round is an easy round if you have knowledge to perform the task. For this round get stick to the one programming language, and two of your favorite subjects, I had given java, database and operating systems.
First question I was asked was fragmentation I explained it clearly.
Second question to print a pattern in java I had done with it was just to check do you know about loop or not and I solved it.
Third one is to tell the difference between final, finally and finalized (thanks to headfirst java) I explained them with a new and correct concepts interviewer impressed.
Forth one was a puzzle problems(again thanks to shakuntala devi puzzles to puzzle) solved both puzzle in a good time again impressed as I was first to solve one puzzle from them which was not solved by earlier ones. This was enough to clear the technical round, just focus on what you know.

MR Round
After clearing technical round we reached to Mr round many students got rejected. For mr round just prepare your one hobby, about your project what you are doing, about yourself ,who you are ,presenting or you can say selling yourself, emerging technologies in your area ,your interests in curricular activities.
If you had done so much you can easily clear your round in my case
1. Tell me about yourself(told them)
2. Tell me something about passion (I have blogging told them by a link and twitter profile ;) )
3. Emerging technologies (presented them cloud computing and big data).
4. If you can send anywhere whether you will go(I love to travel, in my case it was my hobby you can tell your answer)
5. If you will send in customer relation will you go (as a fresher I want to join the platform from where I can explore myself for growth and better future purpose. Tata is itself a brand and working under brand doesn’t matter what you are doing after experience and according to my ability management will certainly make a good decision).
6. What is your programming language (told them java and talk little bit about it).
At last I was selected for hr round.
You have to keep patience and confidence regarding it, certainly you will be selected by it.

HR Round
In this round keep your patience and faith on yourself they will try to demoralized you by behaving unexpectedly but keep confidence and do whatever they said. You will be asked for bond and background checking ,location just say them positively,hr may also can ask you about strength and weakness give them and be ready to give explanation at last I got selected after waiting for 4 hour for result.


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Interview was also good..
All you need is good communication skill and basic knowledge of Java and C

I am very grateful to m4maths. It is a great site i have accidentally logged on when i was searching for an answer for a tricky maths puzzle. It heped me greatly and i am very proud to say that I have cracked the written test of tech-mahindra with the help of this site. Thankyou sooo much to the admins of this site and also to all members who solve any tricky puzzle very easily making people like us to be successful. Thanks a lotttt

Let me share my placement experience with all of you just to relive those wonderful moments again .I am from Dr.Ambedkar Institute of Technology,Bangalore. It was my very first company and very first Aptitude and very first Interview .There were around 650 aspirants who participated in the placement drive out of which 250 were selected and i was one of them.
The 70 odd patterns of TCS should be more than enough to clear the aptitude (log on to m4maths.com for questions and solutions).The cut off is usually dependent on the performance and their requirements.
The selection procedure includes 4 rounds:
1.Aptitude.
2.Technical round.
3.MR and
4.HR .

My technical Interview experience:
It was around 4 in the evening n i was just coming to terms with the happiness of clearing the aptitude.We were asked to move towards the rooms where the technical rounds were going on.After waiting for some time my turn came.Here's how it went.

ME:May i come in sir?
Int:yes please.
ME:ty sir .
INT:Take ur seat.
(then he asked my resume)
INT: Hello Raghavendra plz tell me about yourself..
ME:introduced.
INT:How would you rate yourself on a scale of 10 in c???
ME:umm 7
INT:Ok..you'v mentioned your favorite subjects to be c,c++ and java would u be able to answer if i ask anything about these subjects??
ME:I try my best to answer sir.
INT:(He took out a sheet of paper with some program in it and asked me to write the output.)
ME:did
INT:hmmm good…Try writing the output of this(another program).
ME:did
INT:Ok which is your favorite core subject?
ME: DBMS and OS.
INT:Ok what is a DBMS??
ME:blah blah blah .said..felt lucky that he asked an easy 1..
INT:What is Normalization? 1NF? 2NF? 3NF? BCNF? in Detail
ME:(lucky again as i knew all those concepts very well) blah blah blah
INT:was impressed ..again took a sheet of paper and asked me to convert an infix notation to a postfix..
ME:Wrote
INT:Which is your favorite topic in data structures?
ME:Stacks and Linked Lists.
INT:Tell me 5 Uses of Stacks??
ME:Explained
INT:Differentiate C and JAVA.
ME:said
INT:Ok thats enough I'v recommended you for the next round so prepare well .
(He also gave me a hint of already selecting me by asking me to concentrate more on DBMS after being selected to TCS. That kept me going 4 the next round)

I was Directly called to HR after having to wait for a long time.I must say My HR was a real JOY RIDE.
A Lovely young lady called my name and i went inside
ME:the same old things -may i come in….can i sit ..thank u etc.
SHE:(Took my resume and immediately noticed and marked one of my hobbies that was Sketching and painting.)ahh u r an artist ??
ME: Just an amateur mam.
SHE: do u get time for such things??
ME:Ofcourse mam i paint wenever i feel bored
SHE:ie when the lecture is going on right??
ME:(Noticing her good sense of humor )May be
SHE:laughs.
SHE:Ok Raghavendra can you Tell me the two most Important things required for achieving success??
ME:well first of all v need to Dream mam.(she stared at me and smiled)and then should have the belief to achieve that.
SHE:She had an impressed expression on her face.
SHE:(some more formal questions which were in no way related to TCS or the JOB..surprisingly!!!)
ME:answered those n became really comfortable
SHE:Do U have any questions??
ME:Oh yes mam i do Where do you c TCS in 5yrs Time??
SHE:Probably beating Accenture and IBM
ME:I hope it becomes a reality mam and then asked her introduction.
SHE:I'm ***** from Goa
ME:Waw such a nice place mam
SHE: OH ok enough now u r done u may go and celebrate now
ME:(Not realizing how quickly my dream was realized)said it was indeed a pleasure talking to u mam.
SHE:Same here..

SO THAT WAS MY HR round And it was just a matter of waiting for the formal announcement which finally came at 11 in the night Of course I Became A TCSer
So My advice to you guys is not to take this for granted(Many who did finally suffered ) Prepare ypur self well and yes be yourself and never pretend to be someone u r not.they'll catch u in no time i promise DO UR BEST FORGET THE REST.
ALL THE VERY BEST.
C U IN TCS. Adias..:)

Hello friends....
I am Pritam, CSE student of MCKV Institute of Engineering, 2011 passout batch...TCS came to our college 10th January 2011 for on campus recruitment.Here Iam sharing my interview experiences with all of you....

First of all, u need to clear the aptitude test which consists of 35 questions..80 mins...for that u need to prepare the questions in this site very well..also if you need more such questions, u can email me at pktheking.paul@gmail.com.
I sat for the apptitude around 1.10 pm..the results were declared around 3 pm..I was selected for interview.
Now, as far as the interview is concerned..it was a combined TECH+HR interview. There were nearly 10 panels each consisting 1 Sir/maam...they were in different rooms and around 3:55 I was told by the co-ordinator to go to room no. 312....

Here is the questions I was asked.....

Me : May I come in Sir...
Interviewer : ya sure..
Me : Thank you sir.
Interviewer : (while watching my form)So, Pritam...how's the day going?
Me : It's a fine day sir. But I'm a bit tensed.
Interviewer : why so?
Me : It's my life's first interview sir.
Interviewer : (smiling) Do you need some water?(offering me a bottle of water)
Me : Yes sir...Thank you.
Interviewer : Feeling better now.
Me : Yes sir, thanks again.
Interviewer : Fine...now Pritam ,tell me something about yourself.
Me : Told.(plaese be prepared for this, this is your chance to impress the interviewer at the very beginning of the interview). I gave him my introduction, citing my strong points & I ended my introduction with a question : "Is there anything else you want to know about me sir??"..
Interviewer : No Pritam , That's fine. Do you know binary tree? what is it?
Me : Told.
Interviewer : Good. What is binary search? whats its time complexity?
Me : Told.(I think he liked my answer)
Interviewer : Ok. Do you know about linked lists?
Me : Yes sir.
Interviewer : Whats the difference between link list and array?
Me : I told about memory allocations..etc..
Interviewer : Write a code for insertion at any position in singly linked list.
Me : Sir, should i write the whole code or just the logic will do?
Interviewer : Ok, explain the logic.
Me : Told.
Interviewer : Do you know DBMS? what is the difference between DBMS and RDBMS?
Me : answered.
Interviewer : What is normalization? Explain the normal forms.
Me : Sir, I cn explain upto BCNF..Idont know 4th n 5th nf very well.
Interviewer : Ok, do it.
Me : I answered with an example. The example I had given was a poor example(I gave a,b,c,d as column names) as I forgot the example I prepared, so be prepared with a real world example.
Interviewer : Fine. Do you know C?
Me : Yes sir.
Interviewer : Write a program to print
*
* *
* * *
height is given by the user.
Me : i quickly did it.
Interviewer : Good. Now can you print
1
2 3
4 5 6
like this?
Me : I did.
Interviewer : What's the similarity between structures and union?
Me : Answered.
Interviewer : Do you know java ?
Me : Yes sir.
Interviewer : What are the types of polymorphism in java?
Me : Itold with examples I prepared from Herbert Schildt..
Interviewer : Ok. Why do you want to join TCS?
Me : I told about the stature of the company , how I can make myself & the company grow in a mutual environment...also told about various awards TCS got, great feedback from my senior who are TCS employee..also told about N Chandrashekharan, who joined TCS as trainee like us & now is the CEO.
Interviewer : (Impressed)Ok Pritam, thats all I need to know.(Smiling) Do you have any question?
Me : Yes Sir. I was going through the TCS website yesterday and the first thing that I saw was Global Network Delivery Model. I am very eager to know what is it?
Interviewer : It's a vast topic pritam. But to be precise...(then he explained the basic idea of GNDM)..
Me : Thank you sir. It's a pleasure to talk with you sir.
Interviewer : Same here Pritam. (Than he willingly brought his hand forward to shake my hand)
Me : Shook his hand with a smile in face.Then again saying thank you, I came out of the room.

My interview went for about 35 minutes.I came out around 4.30 pm. The results were declared at 8 pm...and I was selected. I was like on cloud nine....More so because almost all of my friends were selected. But, some did not get through, I was feeling bad for them. But you never know..a much bigger opportunity may be waiting for them.

So, all aspirants, prepare well, be confidant & never lose hope..just remember one thing : You need not prepare all subjects at once. Prepare those which you are comfortable...& then keep in mind that : "You don't have to remember everything...because no interviewer is smart enough to ask you everything"...

So best of luck to all of you...will meet you at TCS one day....Finally, thank I thank m4maths.com for helping me a lot during preparation & giving me the chance to share my experience...I would also thank all my friends who helped me in solving the aptitude questions.If you face any problem regarding the solution of apptitude questions or interview preparation...feel free to mail me at pktheking.paul@gmail.com.