Way 2 Freshers

Mantra of interview: Stay cool, confident, maintain eye-contact, be positive and be polite.

The interview experiences are different depending upon panels. Some are easy, taken by sensitive persons who will make you feel as if you are with your uncle chatting about a recent released Hollywood movie. You are lucky! Some are formal and will ask you relevant questions, interview will be short and they will tell you that you are selected. Fine! Some will chat with you for 90 minutes and will only leave you when someone else tells the interviewer “we have to take other’s interviews too”, you will be selected! OK! Now if you fall into a stress interview panel they will make you feel that you are the worst candidate they have ever interviewed, you will feel ragged; stay calm and never lose your politeness and confidence. At the end you will feel you are not selected, but you will be at the end! Bad luck but you just chatted with one of the top HR executives who will regulate your salary in future. Never use the word “salary” in the entire conversation.

Be smart: A smart person is one who asks questions, listens carefully and knows nobody knows everything!

Don’t be over-confident, i.e. don’t make interviewers feel that you are doing a favor by joining the company. Stress Interview: Technical + HR: 3 persons were seated. 2 HR, 1 Technical HR Tech HR Person 1 2 3 Me Strangely the persons greeted me in such a way that as if I am their boss.

/* this has not happened in any of my friend’s case.*/ they do go by appearance. Dress smart: attractive tie, white shirt, black trousers, navy blue blazer. Girls: don’t wear clothes that divert attention, you will not get selected
1: Tell me about yourself that’s not written in CV. //you must prepare this in mirror
2: Your favorite subjects // I said Math, C, C++, OS, Computer Architecture
3: Why should we hire you? Said my positive sides //innovations* too (a 20 minute conversation by using real-life examples)
4. No. of browsers in market. Can you crack IE source code?
5. Code a linked list. // I said I can’t recall (obviously I had no intention of writing a 4 page code in the 1 sheet provided, if you don’t know say politely “Sorry, I don’t know”, if you are supposed to know something and you can’t recall or don’t want to do it right there say “Sorry, I can’t recall”.)
6. Array & linked list difference and examples
7. DBMS view table //I failed to answer well and fell into a trap; my friends answering right fell too
8. I think you are not suitable for TCS. [Pause 5 seconds] Convince me to hire you.
9. TCS is the worst IT Company. Would you still join?
10. A client thinks TCS is very bad. Make him buy your TCS product.
11. Would you like to relocate? Who will take care of your parents provided you are their only son?
12. You work in Chennai & you have to complete a project tomorrow. Your parents in Kolkata are in a problem and need help. What will you do?
13. Have you any questions? // this question means you are selected 90% confidently Ask at least 2 questions, better if related to PPT and your training //shows interest in company Luckily I gave all answers coolly & although answers were correct they were saying not!

They want to see if you stick with your original answer which you must! They do test confidence in this way. They didn’t ask a single question from skills given in CV. Prepare everything a bit.

// I didn’t Prepare RDBMS very well! Otherwise you might face some problem. Java and System Engineering will also be given credit. Prepare ‘basics’ of core subjects well.
A job interview success depends 30% on luck, 30% on preparation and 40% for the person you are. Some of my other friends’ interview questions: (5-10 questions were asked in each case)

1. Write code for any sorting technique //bubble sort, quick sort, radix sort
2. Explain data structure used in recursion
3. Show angles of a triangle sum up to 180:
4. Draw diagram of CRT
5. Draw 8085 or 8086 microprocessor pin-diagram //explain functionality if forgotten
6. Write an algorithm to describe the operations done in buying a train ticket //cool, they will also ask whether you buy train tickets or free travel
7. Properties of OOP paradigm , virtual functions
8. Pointers: smart, far, near, void ; use pointer to swap values of 2 variables
9. Modulations: FM, PM, AM Information coding
10. What are unique, primary, foreign keys?
11. What is normalization? How many CNFs are present?
12. What are diodes, transistors? Give examples.
13. Explain Newton’s laws of motion and falling bodies.
14. Describe OS by a diagram. //I wish they had asked me this question, the answer is not easy
15. What is Fleming’s rule on current? Is it applied on motors or generators?
16. State Ohm’s law, KCL, KVL.
17. Difference between vein and artery // Bio-medical students
18. Unix commands , difference between Korn & Bourne shell, write a C program illustrating semaphore, deadlock prevention techniques, CPU scheduling methods
19. Networking concepts (asked to those few who have given DS, OS, C, C++, Java, DBMS in CV)
20. What are flip-flops and logic gates? What is used in pen-drive? //NAND gate
21. Reverse a circular linked list. ????
22. Do you cheat in exams? //my friend said not from chits but do confirm answers, got job
23. Why doesn’t the fan above rotate in opposite direction?
24. What will you do on your last day at TCS?
25. Do you have any boy/girl friend? //English medium students prepare
26. Tell 10 Tata products, 10 adjectives to describe you, 10 ways to print “Hello world”
27. Arrange 6 pens to form 4 equilateral triangles //think of pyramid
28. What is the .aspx in orkut’s home page? Does orkuting help you grow?
29. Tell me a recent cinema you saw; name the actors, director, production house.
30. What games do you play? What improvement do you want in it?
31. Tell me about your favorite sport star.
32. Which book do you like most? What is the first sentence of the book? //No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by mimeograph or any other means without permission in writing from the publisher. //the first grammatically correct sentence in most books
33. So you live in a mess-house, describe its life in 1 sentence.

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