TCS PAPER ON 19TH FEBRUARY,2008
Hello, Friends I am Vijay Sharma pursuing my B.Tech. in Computer Science Engineering form Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT) Waknaghat Distt. Solan H.P. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) team of around 40 people visited our campus on 18-19 Feb for campus placement. It was a combined placement for our university and Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT) University Noida U.P.
On the behalf of my university students I would like to thank the freshersworld team for their work as well as all those people who contributed the papers because those were very helpful for the preparation for TCS.
I would like to share my experience with other people who are preparing for the TCS as think that that will be helpful for the entire upcoming visitor who want to prepare for TCS. The recruitment procedure for TCS consist the following four rounds:
Online Test
Technical Interview
H.R. Interview
M.R. Interview
Ø ONLINE TEST :
Online test was conducted for JUIT students and for some branches of JIIT students on 18 Th Feb. and for remaining branches of JIIT on 19 Th Feb. The test started around 10 A.M. without any pre-placement session. You will be given Login Id and password. Firstly there was a sample test and instruction for the test. They will also give instructions orally so listen carefully everything. The TCS people will be all time there during the test so for any clarification ask them for a help. Remember that:
· There is no negative marking.
· No higher cut-off.
· There was no section cut-off.(but I think that there was a minimum cut-off for individual section because some students were not able to cle
r the test because they were unable to score in a particular section).
· Dont click on the EXIT Button; otherwise your test will be finished at that point.
· You can jump to any question within a particular section, but you can not jump sections. On R.H.S. there is a display of Q.No. The answered questions appears in Green color, unanswered but visited questions in some other color(red or orange ,I dont remember exactly) and unvisited questions in other color(red or orange).
· A clock on the top corner of the right hand side displays the reaming time so please keep track of the time.
There were 3 Sections in the test: ---
A.VEBAL SECTION (32 QUSETIONS 20 MINUTES): 10 antonyms, 10 synonyms, 1 Reading comparison heaving 6 question and one passage for fill in the blank with 6 questions. Most of the antonyms and synonyms were form Barrons GRE (you can refer any edition for this section). Only prepare exercises given in the back of word list. There are 50 word lists in the book but you need not to mug all of them only 20 will also work. Start preparing a lot ahead of for this because it will take a lot of time because most of the words are hard to remember. It will take hardly 6-8 minutes to complete antonyms and synonyms because there are only two possibilities, either you know the answer or not. In the remaining time you can attempt RC & fill in the blanks. RC passage on Share Market and Investment, I have seen it somewhere but I dont remember where exactly (most probably in barronss). The passage for fill- in the blanks I dont remembered. But key point in fill-in the blank question is that there were not 5 options to fill the blanks. Instead it options were only 6 choices written and we have to fill each options by selecting it from a drop down menu. So please take care of this.
B. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE ( 38 QUES, 40 MINUTES): The most easy and scoring section. You need not to do anything. No need to buy R. S. Awarwal or something else. Just practice 5-10 sample papers form Freshersworld that will be more than enough. I am giving some of the question with explanation that were in my examination:------
1. 58, 27, 12, __, 2 .
Sol. 27*2+4 = 58, 12*2+3 = 27, 5*2+2 = 12, 2*2+1 = 5, 1*2+0 = 2
.
ans = 5
ans: x -y=0
26. If n=10*18*38 which of the following is not an integer?
a. n/40 b. n/90 c. n/72 d. n/35
Sol. (10*18*38)/35 is not an integer so
ans = d (n/35)
C. CRITICAL REASONING (12 QUESETIONS, 30 MINUTES) : Dont think that it is enough time to solve this section. Actually this section is from the model test papers of Barrons 12 th edition. It consists of 3 paragraphs containing 4 questions each. If you have practiced a lot than you will able to do this section within 5 minutes, otherwise the case may be that you will not able to answer even a single question from it, because some questions are very tricky and you can do them if you are doing them first time. So please prepare the questions form 5 test papers and only solve those paragraphs which contain 4 or more questions. Dont let this work pending till last day. Dont need to mug up all the answers just know the method. Only some questions need to be mug up. There is no important passage as we had paragraphs form all test papers. So dont take chance in this section. I think that in this section the weightage was higher than other sections. In my paper they asked the question on Prithu and Brithu marriages from test paper 5(they changed some name, but dont worry if you know how to attempt then you will able to solve it and those who have mugged up it also dont worry because the starting alphabet of the name of the characters was same, so still you can attempt it. Second paragraph was on Scurvy problem and it was also form test paper 5. Third passage was and selecting two professor form large university and one form small college.
They declared the result of first 80 students around 12am. And we were told that interview will start in 10 minutes. Due to our Test-1 exams we were out of touch with other technical subject and were thinking that we will revise Technical part in the rest of the day. But nothing could be done now. So we were ready for interviews. Out of total around 250 students around 180 students cleared the written test.
We were given a form and asked to fill and submit it. I was called for interview around 5 pm.
TECHNICAL INTERVIEW: This was first time I was giving interview. So I was a little nervous before entering in the interview room. My throat was totally dry and I was thinking that I will not be able to answer their questions. But I had to face the interview and I was asked to go to panel no 1. There were two people there. I took their permissions to enter in the cabin and wished good evening to them. They asked me to sit down.
Sir: Take out your CV , give it to us and tell me something about yourself.
Me: I started: Sir, I am a person who is quite adaptive to any environment
.they started laughing. Yaar tu to ajeeb banda hai
.agar tujhe pani main rakhain to rah lega
.I also gave them a smile
.at that time they had finished scanning my CV and started putting questions form my CV.
Sir: O.K. you have done a project on university student registration system in C and you have also done a project on time-table creation using UML.
ME: I thanked God for diverting my interview to Software Engineering because this was my favorite subject in entire 5 semesters. I started explaining
..they interrupted me after some time and asked about different types of software testing...I started form white box and black box and explained many testing techniques
Sir: what is system testing?
Me: explained.
Sir: what is regressing testing?
Me: explained.
Sir: What is use-case?
Me: I explained, but the definition was not up to the mark
.then they asked two definition from use case which I didnt know. Sorry I am not able to recollect what they had asked
.
Sir: yaar you have done UML and you even dont know this..Then they drew those terms in UML diagram and asked now to explain
ME: I took my time to understand, but I was not able to do so..so I simply said that Im not getting it.
Sir: Tell something about SDLC?
Me: I gave the expression that I was hearing this term first time.
Sir: Dont you know SDLC. Do you know Software Development Life Cycle and tell us on which factors Software life cycle depends?
Me: I exactly didnt know so I asked that can I do some kite flying.
Sir: yes, yes you can
..
Me: Sir I think that SDLC depends on the process model..
Sir: They started laughing again
..yaar hum to 10 saal se TCS main hain(they both were around 26 years of age so their fact was impossible)
hamain to ye baat pata hi nahi thi
..tujhe kisne bayayi
..
Me: I replied with a smile
.
Sir: Asked about DDL and DML and give example.
Me: explained
.and answerd that both DDL and DML are integrated part of of SQL
Sir: No
no I want example in term of query
Me:Explained..
Sir: Tell Different types of Data Structures and give example..
ME: Explained
Sir: Tell different types of linked list..
Me: Explained..but they were trying to confuse me
.
Sir: When we use pointers and when array?
Me: explained..
Sir: What are constructors and what will happen if we dont define constructor?
Me: Explained
.Compiler will automatically initialize
.
Sir: What is virtual table?
ME: I think that they were asking view form DBMS. So I asked them Sir, are you asking form DBMS?
Sir: nahi nahi C++ se pooch rahe hain
.
Me: I politely said that I dont know virtual table in C++
Sir: Do you have any questions?
Me: I want to be run away from those people
so I said no questions sir.and they said that I can leave now
..
So friends that was my first interview in life and it was a stress interview. After 40 minutes I was again called for the H.R. Interview.
H.R. INTERVIEW: I asked the permission to enter in the cabin and wish good evening. The panel consisted only one person who was around 40 years of age. The person stood up shake hand with me and asks me to take the seat.
Sir: Who was your test in the morning?
Sir: Rate yourself on the basis of previous interview?
Me: I said that my interview was average
he asked why?......i explained
.
Sir: Tell me about your Weaknesses?
Me: Told some what he was asking more weaknesses so I said that my coding skills are not very good
..
Sir: Dont you think that you need some improvement in your communication skills
Me: I answered that I am putting my efforts to improve
Sir: what are you doing?
Me: Explaind
Sir: and what will you do to improve your programming skills?
Me: Explained and added that I will also try to hone my skills during the training period
.
Sir: But you will not able to do more because training will be of 4-6 weeks so work hard right now
..Do you have any questions?
Me: I asked that how much time it will take me to reach the position of an analyst?
Sir: It depends on your performance
..and explained more
..
M.R. INTERVIEW: After 20 minutes I was again called for another round. This time in the panel there was a young lady in suite. She asked me to come in and take the seat. Then someone called her, she asked for my permission and said that she will be back in one minute. She came and said sorry for keep me waiting. I said no problem mam. Then coffee came for her and she offered coffee to me
but I politely said no
Mam: Tell me something about yourself?
Me: Explained
.
Mam: What r your weaknesses and what are you doing to improve those?
Me: Explained
Mam: Were U there in presentation in morning?
Me: We were heaving test at that time so I missed some part of it..
Mam: Do you know you have to give medical test in which we test color blindness and so on
Me: I said that Im aware of this..
Mam: So your hobbies are travelling and bike riding
do you have bike here in college and which places in india u have visited?
Me: Explaind
..
Man: Are U ready to sign two years bond?
Me: Mam, for TATAs I am ready to sign 10 years bond
Mam: Thats great
do you have any questions?
Me: I said no mam
she said that I know that u havent taken anything since morning. So go and take your dinner. The results will be declared tomorrow.
Next day there was test and interviews for JIITU Noida. They declared the results for both of the universities around 7pm. 78 students were selected form JUIT and 82 from JIITU. My name was there in the list. I again want to thank all frehersworld team and all those people who had contributed their papers because those were very helpful in the prepration..
For any quarries and help you can contact: --- sharma.vijay85@gmail.com
Some important points to remember:
1. Have faith in God and in yourself.
2. Dont bluff the interviewrs.
3. Start preparing ahead because success is a planed event.
4. Maintain eye contact during the interview.
5. If after doing hard word somehow u are not able to get through, dont lose heart. there are ample of opportunities. The life doesnt end
here
..say to yourself that I have not lost anything the company has lost an asset in the form of you.
ALL THE BEST AND HOPE THAT WE WILL MEET IN TCS
BY: - VIJAY SHARMA B.TECH. 6TH SEMESTER COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING
C/O JAYPEE UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WAKNAGHAT
DISTT. SOLAN HIMACHAL PRADESH.