TCS, 8Apr06, West Bengal
Jobs-Mania
i) Initial screening(60% in 10th and 12th and 70% in B-Tech)(188 were
screened from over 350 in this phase)
ii) Online Aptitude Test(42 cleared this test)
iii) Technical Interview(26 cleared the technical round)
iv) HR Interview.(15 people got through the HR round. Yes, they slashed
11 out of 26)
Aptitude Test:
Everybody got a different mix of questions.
The antonyms and synonyms were 70% common.
The sentence completion passage was very tough. It was about steadily
depleting energy resources and alternative sources of energy. I don't
think I got all of them right.
The comprehension passage was quite easy. What's more I got it common
as it was from Barron's GRE guide (page 104, 15th edition passage on
components of atmosphere) (Time 20 mins for verbal non verbal part. 10
synonyms,10 antonyms and two passages)
The quantitative part was repeated from previous papers(Time 40 mins-38
questions)
The logical part was again from Barron's GRE guide 12th edition. There
were three passages with 4 questions from each passage. (Time 30 mins)
Technical Interview :
The panel had two people both aged under 30. One asked pointed
questions another was moderate. HR questions were being asked for the
first 5-7 minutes followed by technical questions and puzzles in
between.
Q.1. Why did you select this college? Did you have any other choices?
What were they? Why not an Open University? (as I had said college was
not that much important for me),
Q.2. what are your hobbies reading books and playing computer games),
who is your favourite writer(J.K. Rowling), have you read all her
books, Have you read Da Vinci Code, what kind of games do you play? Do
you play strategy games? Which game? Have you played empire earth? Have
you played Road rash?
Q.3. Why is your career graph so sinusoidal?(My marks in 12th was not
good while 10th marks and B-Tech marks were better)? What are your
favourite subjects? In which field would you like to work?
Q.4. You have mentioned that you want to work for a concern which
provides growth opportunities. But in TCS you have none.
Q.5. Question from DBMS; full form of RDBMS, why is it called
relational? unique key, composite attribute, self join, relation
schema?
Q.6. Questions from OS; zombie process, interaction between shell and
kernel, CPU scheduling algorithm?
Q.7. Question from Linux; what is the first line in any shell script?
command line arguments in shell script? Execution of shell script?
Q.8. Questions from C; how do rate yourself in C out of 10? Question on
command line arguments? Question on character pointer? Question on
string compare?
Q.9. Puzzles;Tell me within three seconds how will you distribute 10
rupees among two of us so that I get 1 Rs more than him? Puzzle of two
liars? Puzzle on shape of words of the alphabet?
HR Interview :
Panel consisted of a young lady under 30 and a man just over 30.
Questions were pointed but not asked in an aggressive way
Q.1. What were you people discussing outside? (we were cornering those
who had finished with their interview)
Q.2. What are your friends' views about this panel?
Q.3. What sort of questions do you expect from this panel?
Q.4. What kind of books do you read?
Q.5. Tell me the story of the recent book that you have read.
Q.6. What discrete measurable skills do you have which gives you an
edge over your friends?
Q.7. In what situations would you leave a company?
Q.8. Do you have anything to ask us?
The funda is to stay cool and focused. They will try to grill you. But,
don't showany sign that you are feeling uncomfortable. Luck is also a
factor. So, BEST OF LUCK to all aspiring candidates.