I applied online. I interviewed at TCS (Calcutta) in Dec 2018
Interview
Before TCS arrived in the campus, I spent significant amount of time in preparation, not just technical but also for HR interview. Since, my background was Rajasthan Board (Hindi Medium), I did not want to leave anything to chance when it came to communication during the interview. I spent hours and hours speaking in English with friends, learning vocab (about new 700 words), writing articles, etc. In tech, I was really an average student who would rely on fellow project team mate to finish the coding projects but would mostly out-perform them in Viva (Sorry about that). I was not good at aptitude test either - performed badly in CAT exam. To be true, out of technical, speaking and written aptitude test: nothing was my forte.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2. What is polymorphism and why do we use it.
3. What was your role in your final year project.
I applied through online. And it took nearly 6 to 12 months for the whole process. It was nice experience and interview was easy and they asked about project and there was an nqt test initially before interview
Face to face, prepare accordingly with good hands-on knowledge and coding skills. Also good knowledge on projects if mentioned in the resume.
Practice DSA, system design and that'd be enough.
On campus priority NQT
Solve 2 coding qn and get prime interview. Try to solve atleast 10 test cases . Interview will be mostly on java oops, spring boot , sql
System Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at TCS with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 83% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for System Engineer roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 18 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at TCS overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at TCS as a System Engineer according to 18 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 20%
Background check: 16%
One on one interview: 14%
Personality test: 14%
Group panel interview: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Presentation: 7%
Drug test: 7%
Phone interview: 2%
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