Placement Papers - TCS

Hi Friends

I am Somjeet from KIIT, Bhubaneswar and I am giving some questions asked in TCS technical interview. This interview is the rejection process so be prepared for it.

I entered into the room and greeted the interviewer.

Interviewer: What r ur strengths?
Me: I am consistent over my career and  I like Communication Engg. (They will ask questions from any topic, they don't give any preference to your fav subject)

Interviewer: So what is polymorphism? And write 2 programs to show the feature (both static & dynamic). Write the whole program and you r given 4 mins.
Me: Wrote a program on function overloading and another using virtual functions within 2 mins

Interviewer: He looked impressed and asked me what is Function overriding?
Me: Answered with no problem

Interviewer: What is a macro and what is bitfields?
Me: answered

Interviewer: difference between structure & union
Me: answered

Interviewer: difference between malloc, calloc & realloc
Me: answered with ease

Interviewer: what is a transducer and what is an opamp?
Me: Answered

Interviewer: What are the different stages of an Opamp?
Me: Drawn and explained beautifully

Interviewer: What is AM & FM and which is better?
Me: Defined and then said among the two both r useful according to our needs

Interviewer: He looked happy and thanked me?
Me: I greeted him and came back with a wide smile!

Be thorough with your basics and be well prepared with C,C++ and DS. Even questions like Fibonacci series (both normally & using recursion were asked)
Quick sort, Merge sort, Selection Sort, Bubble Sort are the hot questions
For ETC people difference between Yagi-Uda antenna & normal antenna was asked.
A puzzle was also asked to some- using two 2s make 32. [ 22 in base 15]

HR Interview is rather a formality if u have done well in Tech interview. Mine was of about 2 mins.
They asked me about myself, my hobbies, why I like quizzing and
Why TCS (be prepared for this)

The result was out at 11 pm and I was selected among the 297 students selected in KIIT. History was made as such a large number was placed on the first day.