frequently asked questions in tcs interview
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Frequently Asked Questions in TCS Interview
Below mentioned questions are for reference and they might get change as per
interviewer. As we cannot predict the actual questions it is always better to
prepare for all aspects.
Students from Non-CS-IT background should prepare basic fundamentals of
programming languages and latest technologies that you have mentioned in your
resume. Some branch specific core subjects’ questions might be asked.
Don't by heart given subject specific technical questions as it is, those questions
won't come as it is, consider it as a reference. Focus more on your resume.
For TCS, some students may have one or two or three interviews. It totally depends
on interviewer panel. For some students TR, HR , MR can be combined in one
interview, for some students it can be separate interview.
Note: It is always better to have Mock Interview to boost up the confidence and
chances of selection.
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Technical Interview Questions:
Tell me in brief about your project.
What kind of technology you have used in your project and what was your role in it?
What kind of challenges do you face during your project?
Tell me about certifications and internships what you have mentioned in your
resume.
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How you are preparing yourself to compete with the current demands of industry?
Tell me something about latest technologies like AI, ML, IoT, Cloud Computing.
Tell me about Dynamic Programming and Greedy Approach.
How will you calculate time complexity?
Which programming language you prefer the most?
What do you mean by Software Patch?
How will you define reusability of code?
What is an array?
Define Data Abstraction. What is their importance?
Write a function to swap two numbers without using a temporary variable.
Memory Allocation in C/C++
What is virtual function and pure virtual function?
Name four storage classes available in C.
Explain static variable.
Explain function overloading concept.
Define the term’s classes and objects.
List out some areas in which data structure is applied extensively.
What is insertion sort and bubble sort?
Explain what command-line argument in C is?
What is a pointer?
Explain the difference between pass by reference and pass by value.
Differentiate between null and void pointer.
Explain the concept of Tree.
What is data warehousing? Why should we use data warehousing?
Explain compiler and interpreter.
Explain garbage collector.
What is a digital signature?
Explain the functionality of linked list.
What are the four basic principles of OOPS?
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What is inheritance?
What is the way of inheriting variable of one class to any other class?
What is Polymorphism?
What are the different types of inheritance?
What is the difference between classes and interface?
What is software development life-cycle?
What is normalization of databases, joins, and keys?
What are loops?
Explain about Joins, Views, Normalization, Triggers?
List different advantages of DBMS
What is Database Management System?
What is database Schema?
What are the conditional statements?
What is the difference between the foreign key and reference key?
What is the difference and similarity between C and C++?
What is cloud computing, the application of cloud computing, SAAS?
Do you know of any real-time applications of cloud computing?
What is a linear data structure?
Explain quick sort with algorithm and example?
Given an array, how will you search an element in the most efficient manner?
Tell me something which is not a part of your resume?
What are you doing to increase your communication skills?
Why you are applying for the IT industry and why not jobs in your Core domain?
Explain your project & your role in the project?
What is bitcoin? Advantages of blockchain?
Who built C?
Difference between Call by Value and Call by Address?
Difference between merge sort and insertion sort?
Example of merge sort.
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How to count the elements of a String?
Basics about structure, linked list, queue.
What is Dangling Pointer?
Basic SQL queries?
C program to check whether a number is prime?
What is a double pointer?
Difference between C and C++.
OOPs concepts - All the definitions of OOPs concepts
Difference between while and do while.
Interface definition,
Platform dependency
JVM
Prime number program
If you are okay with relocation, then why didn't u choose to do engineering in some
other state?
What do you understand about a Subnet Mask?
What is NAT?
What is piggybacking?
What is a Ping?
What is Ethernet?
What is the difference between the Java Development Kit (JDK), Java Runtime
Environment (JRE), and Java Virtual Machine (JVM)?
What are interrupts?
What is Indexing in Databases?
What is dangling pointer?
What is Recursion?
Why Python is called as Interpreted Language?
What are benefits of using Python?
What do you mean by dynamically typed language?
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Explain data structures in Python.
What are modules and packages in Python?
What is self in Python?
Explain constructor and destructor.
What is the use of docstring?
How memory is managed in Python?
What are Python Namespaces?
What are annotations in Java?
What do you mean by Abstract Class?
Tell me about Java Singleton Class.
What is lambda in Python?
What is pickling and unpickling in Python?
What are negative indexes and why they are used?
Why pointers are not supported in Java?
Difference between IPv4 and Ipv6
HR Interview Questions:
Tell me about yourself
What do you know about TCS?
What do you think is the biggest strength of TCS?
What are your areas of interest?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Are you ready to work anywhere in India?
Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?
Are you willing to work in different shifts?
Why TCS?
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If you are a team leader and one of your team members is not responding well, how
will you handle such situation?
Being alone child to your parents how do you feel? Family background? Will your
parents support for your job? About siblings, Tell me about your family background.
Tell me about your flexibility? Flexibility to work at any time
Tell me your strengths & weakness, your strengths, what are your strength &
weakness that you would like to improve? Any weakness? How are you working on
weaknesses? What you want to improve in yourself, Weakness with example
Why TCS? About TCS?, What do you know about TCS?& profiles?, why our company?,
Any negative point about TCS, Any positive point about TCS, about TCS: IT sectors,
Why IT company?, 1 negative and 1 positive thing about TCS, Tell me about TCS,
recent news about TCS, TCS project, Why do you want to join TCS? Just as it is your
1st Recruitment drive or really you will to work with TCS? Why do you like to join the
TCS?
Family background?
In TCS as an employee? How was the experience in TCS? Do you know anyone from
TCS?
Where do you stay?
Any shifts constraints, any time constraints, are you ready to work late hours? Are
you okay with shifts? Can you work for 24hrs, Time constraints? What do you know
about Night shift? Will you be ready for it? Comfortable with night shifts? Time &
work constraints, Will you work at night shifts? Are you flexible in terms of timings?
Ready to relocate? Are you relocatable? Cochin-Yes or NO, About time
constraint/place? Reallocate, Location constraints? Your parents have any problem, if
we have you in Chennai, are you ready to relocate? Are you okay with relocating?
Will you work in Chennai? Are you ready for relocating? Will you accept if we
relocate you to Chennai? Comfortable with relocation? Are you flexible in terms of
locations? Are you ready to work in Chennai for 3 years? Are you ready for job
outside Maharashtra?
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Hobbies, Interest, what are your hobbies, how do you pass your time? Do you have
any photographs related to your hobby? Hobbies (Reading). which is the recent book
you read? How can your hobbies play a vital role for the company's growth?
What is IT IS?
Why mentioned good management qualities. can you justify (with example)
Where do you see yourself in 2years., What do you expect in future? After joining
TCS what will you do?, Where you see after 5 years?
10points about yourself that I should select you, Why I should select you? Why
should TCS hire you? Something about you different from others, Why should I hire
you?
Draw a quadrant, mark point and tell me your personality.
3years bond-OK or Not, TCS Bond service, are you ready to sign a bond of 2 years
with TCS?
If given a chance to study abroad, will you? Any plans for higher studies? Do you have
any future education plan?
Where are you from?
Why there is a variance in your marks? Why constantly decreasing marks?
What would be your parents’ reaction?
Which area would you prefer? How was your technical? Which is your area of
interest? Area of interest to work in TCS, Interest in
EIS or ITIS?
A situation was given? how would you handle it?
Are you adaptable to any situation? Give example
Have you lead any team/controlled crowd of people efficiently?
What is ITI?
Asked about the women grievances cell
Is working in team good or alone? Why?
How do you manage your stress?
Any back question?
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What is meant by IT Infrastructure?
If you are mentioning in resume that I have ability of problem solving then which
problem you recently faced?
How many squares are in on chess board?
Opinion about women empowerment?
Any questions you want to ask? Do you have any question for me?, Do you have any
questions?, Would you like to ask me any question?
difference between IT IS & EIS
What is IT IS?
How you are multitasking?
How you are innovative?
About ACM?
How was your TI and MR?
What do you know about IT IS?
Where are you from?
If I am new to Mumbai, describe how you will introduce Mumbai to me in 5 words,
what is the one negative thing about Mumbai
Tell me one policy for women that TCS provides
Achievements
2 challenges faced in Eng. College
Situation given by HR. How to solve the problem?
About college and college day
Difference between hard work and smart work
How were your interviews and explain the questions asked to you?
Why not Microsoft?
If you want to choose the best manager from Shri Krishna and Shri Rama then whom
will you choose? Why?
What is TATA Swachh?
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You are from Mechanical then why are you applying for an IT company? Are you
ready to work in an IT company being a mechanical engineer?
Are you satisfied wherever we send you?
Tell me one thing that I would like to listen.
How was your last interview?
Tell me a special thing about yourself.
What is NSS?
What will you do if you do not get selected?
Are you satisfied if we offer you an ITIS service?
Will you work for any given profile?
Why should I give you a job if you've got a good family background?
Tell me about your likes, dislikes, family, your interest and whatever you want to
share with me.
How many siblings do you have and what are they doing?
Do you help your mother in household work and what's the price of onion in the
market?
Which sabji do you like and which one do you dislike?
What about your accommodation and food if you are getting a job in Chennai?
Questions on particular situations.
Asked about Campus Commune, the respective scores and events participated.
Asked to make a paper boat.
If you are a mechanical engineer then why do you want to work in an IT company?
What type of work would ITIS do?
If I send you to Kabul for a project then will it be fine with you?
CEO of TCS?
revenue of TCS?
ready to work in ITIS?
which domain would you like to work?
team work is good or want to work alone?
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what will you do if your leader is arrogant as well as members are arrogant?
why you didn't join army?
giving any situation and we have to tell how to tackle them
any new inventions?
situation: you, father and husband are travelling in ship…. ship sinks, so whom will u
save if only you know swimming.
What does your dad do?
Being Mechanical, why IT(TCS)
If you are selected in core, will you do the job?
Impress us!!..Make us happy!!
"If you get a lottery of 1 million and asked to distribute amongst your family
members, how will you do it?"
Why do you want to join IT Company?
You are a topper, what will be your next step if you fail?
How do you upgrade yourself?
If you are not placed in TCS, what will you do?
What is creative thing that you have done in your engineering?
do you really want to join or you are just sitting for this drive due to pressure from
anyone?
have you read the service details or something like that
Are you willing to work in any domain?
Are you willing to work on IT projects being mechanical student?
Tell me 3 things which you don’t like?
Which game you play?
Problem solving attitude, have you solved any problem in practical life?
Will you work in IT Sector?
what you have done in your extracurricular activities
why the switch from mechanical to IT?
Your project is core mechanical why do you want to switch to computer
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you have less knowledge about IT as compared to other how you will manage
write an email to your principal asking for a lab for your project
Why being mechanical in TCS?
ITIS ok or not?
What is your favourite subject?
Why Mechanical?
What is Internet?
Seminar-explain in short
Willing to work for application services?
Asked a simple puzzle
What will be your attitude while working for TCS?
What’s your ambition?
Why had you selected diploma after 10th?
Puzzle to count no. of squares
How many close friends you have?
What is that one thing you would like to add to TCS?
Any creative thing you did in engineering?
Achievements in Life.
Success Definition.
How was your TI and MR interviews?
Who is your role model?
What is your view about our president?
Why this college?
Why came in Pune?
Favourite Subject.
Which movie you recently watched? Do you see Hollywood/Bollywood movies?
Which movie you like the most?
What you do on weekends?
Any software courses?
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Do you have friends in Pune?
Salary Expectations
MR Interview Questions ( Optional, sometimes MR can be
merged with TR or HR ):
If your boss is arrogant, he asks you to work for 10- 11hrs, daily, how will you react to
situation.
If you have written a code & your friend in the team shows the code to boss, how will
you react
If your boss is arrogant & your team member are also arrogant. how will you handle
that situation?
How will you manage job after your marriage?
How will you work on project in one year?
Non curricular activity.
Meaning of name
Situation-1) You have to do a project with 5 people whom you hate, so how will you
manage.2) Two graduate, one brilliant but lazy, arrogant, other not brilliant but
sincere and hardworking. you have to give appraisal, whom you will give better."
Elective Subject?
What if you are not given your preferred area?
Situation: - Convincing to client after refusing the project
What do you do apart from technical any hobby?
Which quantity do you have that is different so that you get job in TCS?
Any new invention/technology that you like?
How about growth in the company when it comes to everyday change?
Being an ENTC Eng. how will you manage in IT?
Situation: -Convincing a client who does not want a project when it is about to
complete.
Who is CEO & chairman TCS & tata group?
KAIZEN?
Any specific goal of life?
How did you deal with pressure situation?
how we decide dimensions of laptop screen & tv screen?
Explain the things not in CV?
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you are doing work on embedded system then why are you joining IT IS in TCS?
How many satellites are needed to cover whole earth?
Difference between leader and manager
What you will do if any one slaps you
If your company is in very bad situation and everyone is resigning, how you will stop
them?
Where you see yourself 5 years down the line and 20 years down the line?
TCS has huge revenue, where it goes?
Have you lead a team?
What are your aspirations? Where do you see yourself 2 years down the line?
Have you done any certification?
What is the tagline of TCS? (Experience Certainty)
What according to you is the wrong thing going on around you?
What is more important? Money or Work?
If a computer guy works better than you and if I give him
good pay then is it injustice for you as you are from mechanical?
who is the most important person in your life?
what you have done to make that person happy?
tell me about TCS?
how will you as a mechanical engineer fit into TCS?
Why you moved to IT industry?
ITIS information
How many squares are in the given figure?
If you are team leader of 10 people and in team 6 people are against you, what will
you do
If I give you good work and no money for 3 months, will you work
Will you work for 16 hours?
what is your expectation after 1 year?
you have stage fear?
If TCS and Thermax are on alternate days then which will you prefer? why?
location constraints?
why your marks are decreasing
Have you been a leader?
Difference between stress and pressure?
What will happen if I put diesel in petrol engine?
Why you don’t try for core company?
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Which management subjects you have? And what are the different management
techniques
Will you continue with extra activities even after joining companies?
Leader & manager difference
If selected, what will you do & if rejected what will you do?
What is the true intention of your project?