In this blog post, I will take you through my experience about the selection process at TCS in brief. Basically, there are two rounds of selection process wherein the first is the online aptitude test, which if cleared, will get you to the interview process. Once you have been shortlisted for the TCS selection process, you will be notified to attend the online aptitude test
Online Aptitude Test
The online test consists of two sections: E-mail writing section and an aptitude section. The e-mail writing section comprise of 10 minutes where they ask you to write an email to someone, including many words and phrases that has to be used compulsorily. A minimum of 50 words is compulsory. I made a mistake in answering the email part where I forgot to save the email at regular intervals. Finally, the Summary of responses said that I have not answered the e-mail part. But fortunately it was saved on their server.
The second part comprised of around 30 questions to be answered in around 80 minutes. The questions were comparatively easy but you can expect at-least one question from each areas mainly the following ones:
Time Speed Distance
Percentage
Profit, Loss and Discount
Age problems
Number properties
Ratios and Proportions
Interest Calculations
Time and Work
Permutation Combination
Probability
Clocks
Progressions
The cut-offs for the aptitude test was high. So you have to be prepared enough to get a good score and be shortlisted to the next stage
Interview
The interview for shortlisted candidates from trivandrum was conducted on 26/2/2015 and 27/2/2015 at the TCS office at Infopark, Kakkanad, Cochin. The interview consisted of three rounds:
1. Technical Interview: Here you can expect questions from your academic project, programming languages, your core branch etc. This is the first process of elimination and has to be taken very seriously. For me, they asked to introduce myself first, went through my resume, asked about my academic project and to write programs in C and C++. This is to check if you have sound technical knowledge.
2. Managerial Interview: Here you can expect them to ask more about TCS, knowledge of the current trends in your engineering discipline, current trends in IT industry etc. They will ask more about TCS in this round and you have to go through their company website to answer these questions. They can also give you tasks like "Sell me this pen" to test your communication and persuasive skills. This round also is an elimination round. They asked me to introduce myself, then asked whether I had received any placements, asked me why I wanted to join TCS though I am not from an IT background etc. Typically asked questions are available in many websites, make sure you go through it.
3. HR interview: This is the final set of interview wherein they ask you more about yourself, why they should select you, might make you do some puzzles. They want to assess what kind of a person you are and how you react to various situations. They will assess your leadership qualities etc. They asked me to give a brief introduction, went on to my role in my academic project, asked me why I preferred to work with TCS than other placement options.
On the whole, the selection process was a good experience for me. After the final round, they have told that they would inform the results via e-mail. In case you wish to know the results, please try contacting them on the details given to you.
