TCS 2008 placement paper and personal experience @ RVCE  

I went through placement process of TCS and got selected.
Unfortunately there were 5 rounds for us.       
1) Written test   
2) Technical round   
3) Managerial round
4) HR
5) GD

But usually there will be no GD for TCS

 

1)  Written test: Getting through written test is very easy. There are 25 model question papers for TCS.32 questions on English.38 questions on quantitative and 10 questions on critical reasoning. English and Critical Reasoning will be very tough. Quantitative questions will be very easy. I had prepared quantitative questions of first 3 model papers and luckily all the quantitative questions were from those 3 question papers and for English and critical reasoning guessing will do. So I got through written test.

2) Technical Round: Technical round was also very easy. All questions were from data structures. the question that I was asked are

1) Tell me about yourself
     Ans: family background, Educational qualification and extra curricular activities

2) Difference between Stack and Queue
     Ans:  Stack->LIFO queue->FIFO

3) Applications of Stack
     Ans: Expression conversion, Expression Evaluation, Recursion

4) Is Linked List is linear or non-linear   data structure?
     Ans: w.r.t memory representation Non linear
             w.r.t data accessing Linear

5) Explain Linked List with pictorial representation
            I think you can answer.

6) Advantages of Linked List over Array.
     Ans: dynamic memory allocation, insertion and deletions are easier

7) What is circular Linked List?
     Ans: CLL is a LL where Last Node pointes to the first Node.


8) Explain Bubble sort Algorithm with the code snippet
       Explain the logic with example. Write the code and trace it for first pass.

9) Explain your Project.
     Ans: I had done   project on file encryption and decryption using RSA algorithm. So first I explained the algorithm then I told how we implemented the algorithm.      

At last they asked do you have any questions to ask.
 
3) Managerial round: In this round they mainly focus on time management and    leadership qualities, but they didn’t ask such questions to me. There were two persons in the panel and they were too friendly and cool. It was so funny and I enjoyed a lot. Questions that they asked are

    Tell me about yourself.
          Same thing as mentioned above.

    What do you know about TCS?
         Just go through the company website.

    Why we have to hire you?
Ans:  I told I’m technically good enough then I mentioned my strengths

      4) Write down the software development life cycle (SDLC)?   Answered.

      5) What are your hobbies?
             Ans: I told I’ve no hobbies but watching Telugu films is my interest.
   
      6) So you watch chiranjeevi films?
             Ans: yes sir.

7) What are your weaknesses?
       Ans: I told I forget small things like pen, pencil……

At last they asked do you have any questions to ask.

4) HR Round: I had very tough time in HR, because the questions that I was asked were unexpected. So be prepare for any thing. The questions are

1) Tell me about your self?
         Same as mentioned above.
2) How many companies you have attended till now?
     Ans: I told I’ve attended 2 companies (but actually 4.Too much frankness may not       work sometimes)


 3) Which are those companies?
      Ans: CTS and WIPRO

 4) What happened?
       Ans:  Both in CTS and Wipro couldn’t make it through written test.

5) Which is the company that you’re going to attend next?
       Ans: I told I’m not going to attend any company

6)  Why?
     Ans: I told  I’m  so confident that  today  I’ll be get placed  into TCS ( be confident  and  show confidence)

7) What’s your college schedule for next week?
      Ans: I told that tomorrow mindtree is coming. Schedule is up to mindtree, I don’t after that.
At last he asked do you have any questions to ask.
 
5) GD Round: actually TCS doesn’t have GD but requirement was less so they wanted to eliminate some more students after HR. So they conducted GD. They made a group of 8 members for GD. The topic which we got was “how relationship should be between college and IT industry”


Results  are announced at  9 p.m. totally  46 were short listed out  300.  I was one them who are short listed .

                                            ALL  THE  BEST
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