Placement Papers - TCS

TCS INTERVIEW - 06 JUL 2007

Hi Friends

Myself NIKHIL frm NIT JSR... TCS was the first company which visited our campus.. same old patterned written test..

Critical reasonin frm barons....very easy age old aptitude quests and similar synonyms and antonyms.

my TECH ROUND lasted for nearly 35 mins...
he asked me first to introduce myself....
tell me wht u know bout C and data structure..
asked me bout data structure stacks queues linked lists...difference betwn them.. program to show traversal of linked list...
asked me bout type of sortin...algo (bubble sort)
how many types of processin and their details...(frm OS as its my fav subject...)
asked bout diff between C and C++
prog to show abstraction, encapsulation, and polymorphism....
I answered every ques correctly and so was selected for the hr round...

MY HR ROUND
continued for nearly 25 mins.. I was asked ques like
why tcs??
why not ibm, imfosys??
why less marks??
how will u manage to control the cultural activities, fine arts activities and studies together....??
do u follow the SOFTWARE TRENDS???
wht will u do if ur given a  project andd there is a  cultural event in ur home....will u go home??
dont u think u wasted 2 yrs of ur life???(as i m 2 yr dropper)

Firstly the interviewer was a little bit rude to me as he wanted to make me nervous but I gave him very strong reasons for every if of his... atlast he was forced to say very good to me and finally he shaked hands with me and 2 hrs later I was among the 65 others who were selected..