TCS PLACEMENT PAPERS

TCS COMPANY PROFILE

ESTD in India in 1968

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. is one of the leading IT consultant and BPO service company in the world. They are one of the companies with a very rich heritage and tradition. TCS enjoys a high stature in the IT industry. They have a presence in over 34 countries.

TCS also trains their employees in the best way possible before they are put into live projects.

Addr:	Abhilash Building, Plot No. 96 EP-IP Industrial Area, Whitefield Road, Bangalore 560066.
Web:	www.tcs.com
Careers:	http://recruitment.tcs.com
Email:	bangalore.careers@tcs.com

TCS TEST PATTERN

TCS is India's largest IT company. TCS provides the best training in the industry. TCS also has a reputation for not down sizing even during tough times like the 9/11 attacks.

 

There are a total of 3 rounds.
Round I	Written
Round II	Tech Interview
Round III	HR  Interview

The written round consists of four sections viz, Verbal, Quantitative, Reasoning, Psychometric. The verbal part was mainly concentrated around synonyms, antonyms and sentence completion. We also had  a comprehension passage. This part had a total of 32 questions to be answered in 20 minutes. The quantitative part had simple aptitude stuff of 38 questions to be solved in 40 minutes. Some angles were given and we were asked which ones could forma triangle. The reasoning section had 15 questions to be solved in 30 minutes. It had puzzles type questions each followed by a set of questions. The psychometric part had 15 questions to be done in 30 minutes.

The second round was the Tech interview. This was a long one. took almost an hour. The questions were based on our subjects and project. There were also questions from our elective subjects.

The HR interview was a friendly talk. Generally both the interviews were really good experiences as the panel was encouraging and pleasant.

TCS PLACEMENT PAPERS

1. Synonyms

1.heap

2.cargo

3.belate

4.divulge

2. What is the value of @@+36-++@54, where + represents "square root" and @ represents "square"

3. Andy, Steve and Robert can do a piece of work in 6 days. Andy alone can do the work in 24 days while Steve would take 16 days to complete it. How many days would it take Robert to complete the same work.

4. Ravi, who is a copy writer can copy 50 papers in 10 hours. When he teams up with Usha, his junior, they can copy 70 papers in 10 hours. Find out the time required by Usha to copy 26 papers?

5. A basket contains a mix of 6 red sox and 12 brown sox. A boy starts picking one pair of sox at a time from the basket without looking at its colour. How many such picks atmost would it take for the boy to get a pair of red sox?

6. Complete the below series

5,6,7,8,10,11,14, ?

7. There are two mango trees such that one grows at 3/5th the speed of the other one. The total height of both trees combined in 4 years, would be 8 ft. Find the height that the shorter tree would have after 2 years.

8. All bikes are cars. Some cars are cycles. Then

All bikes are cycles.

All cycles are cars.

Some bikes are cycles.

None of these.

9. Peter and friends decide to go for a picnik to the farthest spot on a weekend. However due to a trouble with their cab, they could not exceed 8 hrs of travel a day. They could manage an average speed of 40 miles an hour in the forward lap and a 30 miles an hour during the return lap atributing it to heavy traffic on Sundays. How far would have been their picnik spot?

TECH INTERVIEW

Sample Tech. Interview Qs

When the interviewer asks some totally strange question all on a sudden it is possible that even the most smart candidate can have a shiver in his spines. To avoid such situations it is a good idea to glance through some of these questions when you prepare.

What are your favorite subjects?

What is a function pointer?

Write some C programs…

What is OOP?

What are its features? Explain each:-

What is normalization? Why is it needed?

Which are all the types of normal forms?

What is an OS?

What are its functions?

What is a Kernel?

What functions does the Shell perform?

What are the different kinds of testing?

What are the different s/w development models?

Explain some network hardware?

Explain OSI reference model:-

HR INTERVIEW

Provided the candidate has the skill set he is presented before the HR manager for the ultimate test, the HR interview!!! Here the aim is to asses the different soft skills of the candidate like positive thinking, leadership, responsibility etc. The HR manager can surprise you with any sort of question that if not heard before can put you down. So again I urge you to have a glance at these questions!!!

Sample HR Interview Questions

1. Introduce yourself

2. Can you sing a song?

3. Can you tell me a joke?

4. Your weakness??

5. Why should we hire you?

6. Where do you see yourself after 5 years?

7. What is your ultimate goal in life?