Placement Papers - TCS

Technical Interview :

Interviewer : Can you please spell your name?
Me : Mr. V sir.

Interviewer : Meaning?
Me : Told meaning.

Interviewer : Okay Mr. V, tell me about yourself.
Me : Completed telling about myself, my projects and all the stuff.

Interviewer : Can you please explain OOP concepts?
Me : As it is easy question I just told confidently with examples for each.

Interviewer : Okay Mr. V, that\'s good, and you have mentioned UML in resume\' can you tell me what is UML.
Me : Explained about UML who started this[3 scientists], and the importance of UML.

Interviewer : What about diagrams?
Me : Named all UML diagrams.

Interviewer : Write inheritance.
Me : Wrote code for inheritance.

Interviewer : I\'ve asked you to draw in UML.
Me : Shown inheritance in UML.

Interviewer : Okay Mr. V, you can leave.
Me : Thank you sir.

[Got selected to next round, for some people MR & HR are done at same time for others they were held differently, for me its different].

Managerial Round :

Interviewer : [after a couple of minutes I sat on hot seat] okay let\'s start with your interview.
Me : Yes sir [with a smile].

Interviewer : Let\'s start with a small logical question.
Me : Yes sir.

Interviewer : Consider there are six tumblers, first three filled with water and next three are empty. You are allowed to do only one operation and make them in such a way that full and empty tumblers are alternate to each other. [full, empty, full, empty, full, empty].

Me : Tried for 5 minutes got with some solutions which are wrong, and finally he said okay lets go with other questions.

Interviewer : Tell me something about TCS.
Me : Smiled and started saying. In the middle I said : There are 32.7% : Female employees in TCS.

Interviewer : Okay Mr. V, in this case I have one - recruitment and there are two candidates, one is male and other is female who are equally talented, and we cannot keep one aside. I need to recruit only one, what do you do at this instance.

[As it is said we need to say diplomatic answers, I didn\'t confined for only one person, but interviewer is forcing me to come to a conclusion, and he wants me to choose either male or female].

Me : Because of having more number of female employees and because of this company is getting more profits, I will go with female candidate.

Interviewer : Okay you can leave.

[now the tension starts as he just said you can leave and I\'m a male employee, after 3hrs of suspense I was called for HR interview. ].

Human Resources Round :

Interviewer : Your TCS application form please.
[I gave it, as I was carrying a copy of it].

Interviewer : Tell me something which is not in your resume\'.
Me : I didn\'t mentioned hobbies in resume\' and said about hobbies.

Listening to music.
Reading NEWS paper.

Interviewer : Okay tell me 7 important NEWS from today\'s NEWS paper.
Me : Mam\' I didn\'t see today\'s paper because of interview, I can tell you yesterday\'s and day-before-yesterday\'s NEWS.

Interviewer : Okay carry on.
Me : [as this is my favorite question I said all the current matters for about 20-30 minutes].

Interviewer : If we find that your certificates are fake we will disqualify your offer letter.
Me : Okay mam\' no problem.

Interviewer : Would you like to re-locate.
Me : Yes.

Interviewer : Will you work in night shifts.
Me : Yes.

Interviewer : Okay done with interview, All The Very Best.
Me : Thank you mam\' and have a nice day[with a smile].

Interviewer : Thank you.

[After 3 hours of suspense my name was announced in the selected list. Hurray!].