TCS mumbai 10 & 11 sept

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From: "hitesh_roars"

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:29:37 -0000
Subject:TCS mumbai (very informative)


TCS walkin, Mumbai
Date: 10 & 11 sept 2005
Venue: Thakur College, Kandivali

Hi friends,
I am Hitesh Gupta. I attended the TCS, Mumbai drive & sending u the
full pattern of questions & the whole experience. Hope it will be
useful for all. Best wishes.

Appeared: 13000-12500 (approx)
Short listed after apti on 10th sept: 500 (Including the one's
whose interviews r "to be scheduled")
Short listed after technical: around 160 (Doesn't include the one's
whose interviews r "to be scheduled")
Short listed after HR/Managerial: 101
The appeared candidates were approx around the figure I mentioned.
At last the mgmt had to close the main gate after 2 pm as a big
crowd was still waiting outside.
The crowd had started pouring in from around 4 am in the morning,
not caring even for the torrential rains in Mumbai. I myself reached
the venue in Kandivali at around 8 am. The process started at around
7 AM with the distribution of forms and after all the formalities,
we were taken for the apti. The TCS volunteers were friendly &
efficient & there was no chaos at all despite there being such a
large crowd.

Apti pattern:
In total we have three sections consisting of 82 questions in
all.There is no negative and no sectional cut off marking.
There were 5 series of papers: v,w,x,y,z.

The paper had the usual 3 sections:

1. Verbal :
10 antonyms,10 synonyms, passage,fill in the blank with sentences.
The synonyms were really tough (they were not a repeat of earlier )
so was the fill in the sentences passage.The passage was on a vague
topic Tip to everyone: Plz prepare this section the most & allot
it a bit more time too. It is even harder than the CAT verbal
section actually. Go thru Barrons 13th repeatedly.

2. Quanti & Logical :
This was easier. Around 50% questions were repeated. There were the
problems of the latitude & longitude, temperature, probability,
highest std deviation amongst the given, etc.
Some questions which I remember:
1. If a student scores GPA in his semester & year as given below
then calculate his GPA for 3 year:
Sem: 2.4,3.14….
Year: 1.3,1.9……
(the figures r not exact.)
2.Match the following: Cow 1. a type of
Mammal 2. a superset of
2 more cases given
3. In a mixture, R is 2 parts and S is 1 part. In order to make S to
25% of the mixture, how much of R is to be added?
Ans.One part of R
4. With a 4/5 full tank a vehicle can travel 12 miles, how far can
it travel with a 1/3 full tank Ans. 5 miles
5. A moves 3 kms east from his starting point . He then travels 5
kms north. From that point he moves 8 kms to the east.How far is A
from his starting point? Ans. 13 kms
6. 3 angles or 3 sides r given.Which will form a triangle?
7. units of basic quantities :
(energy * time * time )/(mass * dist) == distance
8."$" is for doubling the value "%" is for change of sign then what
is the value
$%5-%%$3+$6…….A long expression similar to this one.
9. R-rounding off, M-modulus, T-truncate M(893,10)+r( )+t( ) is
asked
10.vertices edges and surfaces of a cube Ans-8,12,6
11.Questions on General computer awareness
Pick the odd one…..
1.http 2.arp 3.snmp 4.baan Ans-baan
1.linux 2.windows NT 3.sql server 4.Unix Ans-Sql server
( 2 more)
12.how many Y's r followed by F and not preceded by Z
13. largest prime no. in 8 bit computer. Ans: 251
14.e power x curves : note that the values were changed.
15. Coding decoding of words like if something is coded as this then
how will u code this(like that)
16. In the word organizational, if the first and second ,
third and forth ,forth and fifth, fifth and sixth
words are interchanged up to the last letter, what
would be the tenth letter from right?
17. In a two-dimensional array, X(9,7), with each
element occupying 4 bytes of memory, with the address
of the first element X(1,1) is 3000, find the address
of X(8,5).
18. A FILE IS TRANSFERRED FROM A PLACE TO ADESTINATION CAPABLE OF 10
KB. THEY GIVEN SOME RATE OF TRANSFER. U HAVE FIND A EQUATION THAT
BEST SUIT THIS- there were a lotsa twists given in this question
unlike in the previous question papers.
Tip: Keep Ur cool.
19. G (0) ==1 G (1)== -1 IF G (N)==G (N-1) + G(N-2) THEN WHAT IS THE
VALUE OF G (6)?
20. WHICH ONE WILL BE THE EXACT POWER OF 2? Ans: 2048
21 .A power unit is there by the bank of the river 750 mts. A cable
is made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the
river at 1500mts. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 15/- per
meter ansd cost of cable on the bank is Rs. 12/- per meter. Then
where they will cut ?
22. There were 2 series as well.
23. A Venn diagram & questions on it were asked in %. Some students
just went for simple figures given but actually we have to take out
% of it in almost all questions. SO read the quests carefully.

Critical Reasoning:
The passages were written repeatedly before asking each question. I
think that was a trap to waste some time of the examinees before
they realize the actual thing.
A) One syllogisms kinda passage:
All reds r greens
All blues r white
No yellow is a white.
Some blues r reds
Etc.
& then questions were asked like: which of the following is true: a
red can be a blue but not yellow. And like that
B) The red & brown marriage passage:
There are 2 groups named Brown and red. They can't marry in the
same group. If the husband or wife dies then the person will convert
to their own group. If a person is married then the husband will
have to change his group to his wife's group. The child will own the
mothers group.
From these a set of 4 questions were given like:
1.If the person doesn't change his group even after he is a widower
or divorcee then which of the following is necessarily true? Some
sentences for checking here.
2.Brown's daughter is red (False)
3. If a person is red. Then his/her mother's brother belong to
which group if he is married
There was no psychometric.
After the apti they declared the results for all the batches
together after around 4 hours. They put the students in 3 parts
according to their apti scores. The group of students with higher
apti scores were called for technical on the next day itself, while
the ones with lower scores were told that their schedules for
interviews will be declared afterwards (the "to be scheduled
candidates").The people with still lower scores were told to check
www.recruitment.tcs.com so that if requirements exist they will be
called in further batches.

About Technical interview:
My technical was scheduled on the next day (11 September) at 9 am.
But I had to wait until around 6.30 pm when I was called in for it…
My panel consisted of two people. They were very friendly & cheerful
& made me comfortable.
Questions were:
1. Which r Ur fav subjects?
I: told 2/3 subjects. But they wanted more. They don't consider c &
c++ as different subs. So u have to tell 3 more subjects besides c,
c++ & OOP (everyone of us loves these 3, right? But they too know it
very well….. & hence do prepare more subs)So I told os,ds,computer
graphics,SE….
There were two persons and one person started writing the subjects
as I told to them.
Questions asked on
OS
Blody anamouly,mem allocation,virtual mem,kernel ,page replacement
algos,page fault
RDBMS
Normalization and its types, types of rdbms, keys – primary
candidate unique foreign,relational meaning
C/C++
Communicating b/w two programs in c,oops(explained exceptionally
well as I am fully prepared wt this q and took 2 min to answer this
and all candidates must prepare this well as it is always asked)
SE
SDLC (explained well all 7 steps)
They were also astonished on listening answer and gave me comment
that u are great.
1. Explain Ur project
2.
3. The technical lasted for around 35 mins. Then I was told to
wait outside. After 2 minutes a volunteer came & informed me that I
was short listed for the HR & was taken to a room for waiting. My
turn for the HR round came at around 9:30 pm.
About HR/MR round:
It was a combined HR/MR round & was the toughest ….. (Surprised? So
was I… We generally tend to take the HR/MR round less seriously, but
beware friends…It's not any rule that they wont ask u technical
questions here.)
There was a panel of 2 members for taking my HR. They were very
knowledgeable and friendly- but u r subjected to lots of pressure
during the whole interview. So be prepared to handle REAL pressure.
U can be subjected to pressure thru small gestures & even a nod of
head can make u pretty nervous at such times…….When I say REAL
PRESSURE, I mean it…….

Questions were:
Hr person praised that u are wearing a beautiful tie (Always dress
up smartly as it affects a lot on ur interview and give smart and
sharp answers)
HR How was Ur day today (I said: a bit tough.)
HR Why tough? ( I said: I had to wait since morning….oops,I realized
I shouldn't have told this)
HR asked me that u had written so many projects in ur resume have u
worke on them or they are the fake ones.
I Replied they are all real and they ask me any project
HR asked me one project and tables made in that. (replied
confidently)
HR Why TCS?
HR Have u applied to any companies earlier?
(My tip to everyone: Friends, Be thoroughly prepared. It's not easy
at all. But most importantly "be EXTREMELY confident", composed &
have a smiling face almost always.)
1. R u ready to sign a service agreement for 2 years? Do u
think it's not OK for a company to get the service agreements signed
considering the globalization etc etc...
2. What if we send u for a posting at REGIoN>Assam? Will u be prepared to go to some
remote place?
The HR round lasted for around 25-30 minutes. & I have successfully
made it to TCS
Hope this is useful to all the TCS aspirants.
Best wishes & get cracking…….

Hitesh Gupta
Hitesh.scorpio@gmail.com
09888485985

Thank u Hitesh