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TCS PAPER ON 23RD JULY,2008
TCS Recruitment Rounds
a. Written Exam
b. Technical Interview
c. HR Interview
d. MR Interview
TCS visited my college during 23-25 of July 08.On the first day we had the written exam. But unlike the previous exams no question was repeated in the verbal and quantitative section.In critical reasoning out of 3 problems 2 were from the five model test papers of barron's 12th edition.
No word from high frequency list.As i didn't prepare for this section my 95% synonym and antonym were wrong..I did the reading comprehension and fill in the blanks seriously.
I had only revised C and how motor works(I m in EEE branch) but I was confident, although some of my friends had around 5-6 subjects in thier hands.Even I was thinking what to say about my favorite subject,as this is the most commonly asked question in TCS interview. So, finally my turn came up there were 2 interviewers on my panel.
Me:- Good afternoon Sir, good afternoon ma'm.
After seeing my resume both the interviewers started underlying some of the points in it.
int1:-have a seat.(never take a seat before their permission)
int1:-What happened to your hand. (Actually I had a fracture in the elbow of my right arm ).
Me:-told them
Int:1-introduce yourself
Me:-introduced (native place, family background, hobbies, interests etc.)
Int2:-Did to listened the Rahul gandhi's speech (Since i mentioned newspaper reading as my hobby)
Me:-No ma'm as I was busy in preparing for the interview. (don't ever lie)
Int1:-Explain your projects
Me:-Explained them in nutshell in 3-4 min.
Int1:-Asked me to write a program in C
Me:-Explained them the logic verbaly. (as i was not able to write)
Int2:-Asked some C questions.
Me:- confused, answered some of them, i was like 50:50
Int:- What is the basic building block of commands of microcontroller, like alphabets for english
Me:-Gave some stupid answers. (nemonics was the right answer)
Int:-what other computer subjects you have read.
Me:-Digital Electronics (Since i haven't revised DS,DBMS)
Int:-what i the differnce between analog and digital signals.
Me:-Explained
Int:-You can go now.
Me:-wished them
Int:-What happened to your hand.
Me:-Explained them the reason
not satisfied with my reason, started cross-questioning me as if I have done a crime. (Even there was a reason for his such question bcoz I met the accident when I was crossing the railing to enter the market, but that was the only way to enter the market )
Int:-How can a old lady enter the market.
Me:- By crossing railing (as it was around 1.5' high)
Int:-Do you know load,effort and fulcrum model.We had studied it in school.
Me:-sorry sir,not able to remember it.
Int:-you know what is fulcrum.
Me:-It is like the shape of bucket.
Int:-(not satisfied)U dont know the meaning of fulcrum? You have defeated the very purpose of asking the question.
Even then he lifted a glass and asked me about the load,effort and fulcrum points.
I told him about load and effort.
Int:-What is your favorite subject
Me:-transmission and distribution
Int:-what are the differnt transmission and distribution companies in
Me:-Confused,gave the answers that i could have remembered at that time.
Int:-what is transco
Int:-who owns NDPL.
me:-Gave wrong answer.
Int:-What is CD.
Me:-Explained
Int:-what is 1 MB
Me:-explained
Int:-What is floppy
Me:-expalined size,memory space and older version.
Int:-Pen Drive
Me:-Memory space doubles in every 5-6 months.
Int:-What is the latest available in the market
Me:-8 MB
Int:-cost
Me:-around 1000
Int:-someone has looted you,if I take a pic of yours it will be around 2Mb.
Me:-Sorry sir,8 Gb
Int:-you should be.You need to be alert while speaking to clients.
Int:-have to seen TCS site
Me:-yes sir
Int:-write it
Me:-I can't write
Int:-tell me
Me:-I skiped the colon (:),else it was correct
Int:-he tried to confuse me on the colon.
Me:-But, I stick to answer
Int:-What is https
Me:-Dont know (s stands for secure connection)
Int:-do u have net connection in your home
Me:-yes
Int:-which vendor
Me:-MTNL
Int:-plan
Me:-tri-band invi 249
Int:-download allowed
Me:-400MB
Int:-download speed
Me:-varies from 10-250 kbps
Int:-what is kbps
Me:-kilo bytes pes second
Int:-sure
Me:-no sir, kilo bits per second
Int:-sure
Me:-(pause for 5-10 s) kilo bytes per second and I am now very much sure
Int:- good.what are the domain names.
Although i knew,but due to some misinterpretetion I didn't answer the question
Int:-You are not much aware of internet
Me:-I belong from a village and I am using internet only for the past 2-3 years,that's the main reason
Int:-ok
Int:-tell me about the TCS revenues
Me:-told him completely the last fiscal result.
Int:-TCS employees
Me:-1 lkh 15 thousand
Int:-gud, TCS share price as of today
Me:- 860
Int:- Damn gud (nw quite impressed)
Int:-What are the 5 top IT companies in
Me:-TVS,Infosys,Hcl,Wipro, Satyam, I had read it a week ago in newspaper.
Int:-gud
Me:-What is modem
Int:-explained
Me:-Why to just increase the complexity of the system by adding extra hardware.
Int:-Explained the reason about all losses,etc.
now, the lady interviewer
Int2:- So Akshat,what u see about TCS.
Me:-I was a bit confused how to answer this question,told everything like why i wanna join TCS,about its training program,etc.
Int2:-Why your percentage is low. ( mine was 72.3% )
Me:-Bcoz in am involved much in extra curricular activities.
Int:-Can u leave your studies for the sake of such activities.
Me:-No ma'm , will improve it in the final year.
Int:-any questions.
Me:-What TCS expects from us before joining.
Int:-Learn some languages.
this time single person only.he only asked about my hand, intoduction and any question about TCS.
