TCS

COMPANY PROFILE
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization that envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value.

Tata Consultancy Services started in 1968. The early days marked TCS responsible in managing the punch card operations of Tisco. The company, which was into management consultancy from day one, soon felt the need to provide solutions to its clients as well. TCS was the first Indian company to make forays into the US market with clients ranging from IBM, American Express, Sega etc.
TCS’s work has spanned a range of activities, from strategy consulting and system integration services to offshore development centres for some of the most sophisticated software development in the world. Consider these facts about TCS:

Projects for over 1000 clients in more than 55 countries. Our clients get measurable business results, which is why many Fortune 500 companies prefer TCS.
More than 100,000 person years of experience in diverse business domains and technology areas.

Knowledge accumulation through collaborative research with industry and academia, and partnerships with global technology leaders.

Over 28,000 consultants, a range of world-class products, proven offshore development
capabilities, and multiple SEI CMM Level 5 centres.

Total revenues of Rs 5,012 crore ($ 1.04 billion) in the year ended March 31, 2003.
TCS believes that IT is a key factor for social change and is committed to several community development ventures.

If you have the talent and the ambition to grow, there's plenty of space for you at TCS. Its streams of competence embrace everything from technology and strategy to research and teaching

TEST PATTERN

TCS Test Pattern:
It was an online exam…. Test Consists of 3 Sections… + Psychometric Test

1.Test on Synonyms and Antonyms (40 questions, 20 minutes: Also Q’s on Sentence Completion).
2.Aptitude Test (32 questions, 40 minutes: General Questions on Mathematics).
3.Critical Reasoning (30 Minutes: 3 Analysis Paragraphs and 12 questions Relating them).
4.Psychometric Test (150 Questions, 30 minutes: only if you Qualify in the above tests).

Details about How to Prepare for the above tests:

1.Verbal Ability:
This Test contains Synonyms & Antonyms…Almost all of them were From GRE BARRON’S 12th Edition & upward…30-50% of them will be repeated from previous TCS papers. Few Questions on Sentence Completion were also there..for these also refer BARRON’S.NOTE: During the Exam..you should be careful..because on the computer screen the names Synonyms & Antonyms will be placed side by side so that we may by mistake choose an antonym instead of a synonym…so Be Careful..
2.Aptitude Test:
This test will consist of very general questions…This is the easiest section Compared to the Other Two. Almost 70-80 Questions will be repeated from the Previous TCS Papers…just learn the method from those papers..same model will be given..(This happened almost all the times). If you have time refer to any Aptitude book of your interest…it may be R.S.AGARWAL or any Other……
3.Critical Reasoning:
Here Starts your Problems…30 Minutes…12 questions..don’t think that there is a lot of Time..these will be somewhat tougher those who has some touch with such kind..and will be Very Tough.. if you haven’t seen this kind before..so,you should have some practice relating this kind of questions… 3 paragraphs will be given.. 3X4.. 12 questions.. first 2 paragraphs will be some twisty questions… like our arrangements questions… routes between cities.. like that… and the last one will be on Data Interpretation…You prepare Data Interpretation again from BARRON’S…. but the remaining from R.S.AGARWAL-Reasoning…. Or from Barron’s 13th Edition
4.Psychometric Test:
This test comes up only if you qualify in the Aptitude test… This test consists of 150 questions which we should answer in 30 minutes (of course, that much time is not required) Don’t think that this test has no weightage.. there is filtering in this test too… this test tests your psychology.. Remember among 150 many questions were asked again & again in a variety of ways.. so don’t get trapped… be honest while attempting this test.. choose what you’re your heart says.. it will take you through the test..This ends the Tests.
INTERVIEWS:

Now if you are Alive Even after All these tests….then you have to face a Technical Interview…It may be on the same day of the Test.. so be Prepared in Advance…..The Interview will be done by a Panel of 2 members…. No need to worry.. They will be Very supporting & Friendly.. First they ask us to Introduce ourselves… then they’ll go into your project details… don’t forget to prepare project…. They mainly concentrate on your project only…so be confident on every aspect of your project… then you should have some basic knowledge on C language. There will be some questions like “what is the o/p of this code?”, “what are the errors in the code?”..like that… so be prepared for all the basic concepts.. If needed you have to write some small codes too.. at the end they will ask some general questios like “Why TCS?”, “Where do you see yourself in the next five years?”, “do you have any questions?”, try ask some questions… it shows your interest in the Company..
HR INTERVIEW:

Now if Chase this one too…. Then comes your Final Attack.. the HR Round… I many times heard that “I failed in HR round!”.. likewise anwers…. But you should not fail in it.. because it involves no technical questions… it just dwell into your innerself… so, be confident and frank while facing this round…They generally ask questions like “Tell about yourself?”, “Who r your role models?”, “What is your weakness?”, don’t say “I Have no weakness!”, just prepare a small weakness for yourself that causes no harm to your future…O.K.. “What is your mother tongue?”
if your Academic background is good.. be prepared to face some Techies here too….

PAPER 1 ON 27th APRIL AT MANIPAL

THERE WERE 3 SECTIONS........
1.ENGLISH GENERAL(SYNONYM 10,ANTONYM 10,READING COMPREHENSION, AND SENTENCE COMPLETION(QUITE TOUGH))
2.GENERAL APTITUDE(38 QUESTIONS) INCLUDING DI AND VENN DIAGRAM(EASY ONES)
3.CRITICAL REASONING 3 QUESTIONS(EVERYTHING FROM GRE BARRRONS 12TH EDITION...

SOME OF THE SYNONYMS ARE.....
BANAL,DETERRENT,VACILLATE,WETHARGY,BANEFUL,SOLLILOQUY,RINAILE,REVILE

ANTONYMS WERE.....
DESECRATE,COGENT,RAUCOUS...GO THRU ANTONYM QUESTIONS FROM BARRONS 12TH EDITION....ALL WILL BE COMMON

FOR APTITUDE...PREVIOUS YEARS PAPERS ARE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT..SAME THING IS ALMOST REPEATED..very very easy questions ....................................................................

HERE ARE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS I REMEMBER
1) It was a Number series
4, -5, 11, -14, 22, ---
n^2-1 series.........3 8 15 24 ?

2) It was a word SENSATIONAL if you interchange 1st word with 2nd ,3rd with 4th n so on whta will be the 10th word from right..?
3) What is the largest 6 bit prime number ? Ans := 61
4) A = 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
B = 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
C = 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0
what is (A U B)U C ? ans : = 255

5) A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in 10 hours. Then for how many hours required for B to copy 26 papers? Ans = 13

6) Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices?(Hint det(A)==0)
7) In which of the system, decimal number 384 is equal to 1234?
8) In a two-dimensional array, X(7,9), 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(5,8)?
9) One curve problem was given ..
x y
0.99 0.001
9 0.9
99 1.998
999 3
If y = f(x) find f(x)? Ans logx

10) WHAT IS THE VALUE OF M(373, 5) + R(7.8) - T(6.4) + R( 3.4)
M- MODULAS R- ROUNDOFF T- TRUNCATE
11) Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices
12 ) Given the length of the 3 sides of a triangle. Find the one that is impossible?
13) A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900 meters width. A cable is made from power unit to power plant opposite to that of the river and 3000mts away from the power unit.The cost of the cable below water isRs.4/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.5/-per meter. Find the total of laying the cable ?

14)Match the following:
a. Brake CAR -> a type of
b mother women -> a superset of
c. Ceagle DOG -> A part of
d.mushroom vegetable -> Not a
very easy

15)A Flght takes off at 2 A.M from 32 N 40 E and travels for 9 hours to reach the destination which is at 12 N 50 W. Find the local time of destination when the flight reaches there? ( soln : 1 degree =4 minutes.. Neglect the latitudes .. 40 - (-50) =90 degree = 90 * 4 =360 mins =6 hrs.....time of reaching = 2AM + (9 - 6){substraction as from east to west}hrs =5 A.M ans)

16)3 questions from piechart about subjects passed (easy)...
17)3 questions about a graph about production of resources in varios years..quite easy..
18) find units: (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance )ANS=KG
19) Select the odd one out a. WAP b. HTTP c. BAAN d. ARP e.SMTP
ans = BAAN
20) Select the odd one out a. Java b. Lisp c. Smalltalk d. Eiffel. e. Fortan
ans := Lisp
21) (a) 2+6i (b)1+i (c) 6-2i (d) 1-7i .Find which of the above is orthogonal.
22) which is power of 4 ?
a. 2052 b. c.4096 d. e.
ans(4096)

23)If VXUPLVH is written as SURMISE, what is SHDVD?
24) Select the odd one out a. SQL b. DB2 c. SYBASE d. HTTP e .Ingress
ans : = HTTP
25)Find the value of the 678 to the base 7.
26)one question like g(0)=1 , g(1)=2) g(n)=g(n-1)-g(n-2)
find g(6)?

REASONING (12 questions from 3 passeges)
also listing questions from my friends sets ALL WERE FROM BARRONS 12th edition..

TECHNICAL/MR INTERVIEW
It was a NOT A cakewalk...
1. The guy handed me a piece of paper and asked me to write program to reverse charecter string and factorial (using recursion)...gave me 10 mins then asked me to explain) which i did gleefully.
2.Asked me the diff between C++ & java..
3.abt dbms...joins and normalization
4.java questions..........quite easy..applets, and few abt awt
5.a program on bubble sort
6.thread and process differences......
7.if u have a project.....just get a good knowledge abt it...............

45 mins. interview in my case.....a stress one......but just keep ur cool..u will clear it with ease..thats it no more tech..

MR INTERVIEW
3. What would you do if u are rejected ? ans : said i will look back at my performance and turn my -ve points into my +ve points)...
4. Asked me 1-2 questions about family..

here also they asked me abt my project then asked me if i had any questions..its a must.

HR interview
it was cakewalk for me......just a 2 min stuf.just be cool....just a formality.. He asked me about my hobbies ..all of which i answered confidently...SO GUYS JUST BE CONFIDENT...AND REST IS EASY......

PAPER 2 ON 11th APRIL AT UTTAR PRADESH

written exam is divided in three part..
1) Verbal
2) Aptitude
3) Critical reasoning
it is very clear there is no sessional cut-off..

1)in this section 10ANTONYMS, 10SYNONYMS , and 2 reading comprehensive.
Most of the antonyms and synonyms are from GRE BARRON'S high frequency word list...reading comprehensive were too toug 4 me..

2)In aptitude test there are 40 questions...please read the previous papers thoroughly ...pattern remains same only just data is changed...
some qs i have remembered are...
1) no of edge,phases,vertices in a cube (12,6,8)
2) which one is not the angle set of triangle.
1)(60,30,90) 2)(55,45,80) 3)(70,60,100)
3)find the missing term.
2,4,6,3,6,?,,8,16. ans 9
4)largest prime no ofof 9 bit ans-509
5).If G(0)= -1, G(1)=1, G(N)=G(N-1)-G(N-2), then find- G(5)
ans=-2
6) A may complete a work in 90 days ,A+B complete the work in 60 days in how many days B alone may complete the work. ans=180days
7)the base address(A[1][1]) of an int array A[7][5] is 1620 and int takes 4 byte to store in the memory then find out the address of A[5][2]. ans=1704
8).Select odd one out—
SQL Server,Ingress,Oracle,DB2,Java ANS=Java
9) Sybase,Windows NT,Linux,mvs,Java ANS=Java
10)@@+25-++@16, where @ denotes square and + denotes square root. ans=621
11)one qs on coding decoding bpmrl=aolqk ,sjile=?
12)one qs of time calculation of flight..
13)A=11010101
b=10101010
c=10001001
find the decimal value of (AU(b-c))
14)which one is a power of 4?
a)16384 b)15273 c)18538 d)17532 ans=16384
15)conversion of a given no into base 7.
16)m=sqrt(100n) if we increase the value of n by 1% then how much % te value of m change?? ans 0.5%
17)if M=mod ,R=round T=truncate then find the value of
M(463,5)+R(3.3)+T(7.9)+R(5.7) ANS:19
18) Which are orthogonal pairs?
a. 3i+2j b. i-8j c. 2i-3j d. 6i-2j ans = A&C.
19)find the singular matrix?? ans=whose det value is 0.
20)there was one pi chart and 4 qs are baised on it...easy one
21)tere was one bar graph and 4 qs are baised on it... and so on....

3)CRITICAL REASONING....
ONLY STUDY THE MODEL PAPERS OF GRE BARRONS 12&13th edition only... you have certainly got para among them..

TECH INTERVIEW...
1)TELL ME ABOUT UR SELF??
2)WHAT IS UR AREA OF INTEREST
(my ans is compiler and data structure)
3)what is compiler?
4)what is laxical analysis..
5)what is tokens?
6)what are the phases of compiler?
7)write down the program of bubble sort.
8)what are the best and burst case complexity of quick sort.with example.
9)what is three address code.
10)why it is called three address code?
11)describe ur project.
(my projects are ->chat serer in java using socket programming. compiler construction in c )
12)what are socket classes and who it works.
13)what are threades.
14)what are applet.
15)difference between thest two loops working..
-----------------------
n=5
for(i=1;i<=n;i--)
printf("%d",i);
----------------------
n=5
for(i=1;i<=n;--i)
printf("%d",i);
----------------------
(ans both loops are same)

M.R+H.R INTERVIEW
1)describe ur self?
2)tell me ur strengths and weakness.
3)wy u want to join tcs.
4)what do u know about our company?
5)how many times u have visited our web site?
6)do u know about our 2 year bound.
7)are u comfortable to go any where?

PAPER 3

The test was divided in three sections as:

Verbal reasoning

Critical reasoning

Quantitative aptitude



Tips:

1.GRE Barron will be helpful.(12th edition)
2.Be very much concerned for time.
3.Be confident and calm in your technical and HR interview.

No Sectional Cut off.
No Negative Marks.
No Psychometric Test was there for us.

Appearance of Psychometric means you cleared the test.
Section A consisted of 10 antonyms and 10 synonyms. I don’t remember them but u have to be well prepared with the GRE BARRONS 12TH EDITION Next was to fill lines in the gaps: (10 Qs)There were 10 gaps to be filled in with lines in a passage given.that was similar as fill in the blanks.

Section B was the QUANTITATIVE section.
Some of the questions were as below. The quantitative questions in TCS are always repeated . So I suggest u to go through the previous question papers available.
1.Find the result of the following __expression if, M denotes modulus operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncation: M(373,5)+R(3.4)+T(7.7)+R(5.8)
2. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8-bit memory?
3. Find the physical quantity in units from the equation: (Force*Distance)/(Velocity*Velocity)
4. Find the value of @@+25-++@16, where @ denotes "square" and + denotes "square root".
5. If f(0)=1 and f(n)= f(n-1)*n, find the value of f(4).
6. Consider the following diagram for answering the following questions:
A). Find the difference between people playing cricket and tennis alone.
B). Find the percentage of people playing hockey to that playing both hockey and cricket.
C). Find the percentage of people playing all the games to the total number of players.
7.One more question of the same type (Same type of diagram; of course in a different set)
A). How many more or less speak English thanFrench?
B). What % people speak all the three languages?
C). What % people speak German but not English?
8.Select the odd one out
a. Oracle
b.Linux
c. Ingress
d. DB2
9.Select the odd one out
a. SMTP b. WAP
c. SAP
d. ARP
10. Select the odd man out.
a. Java
b.Lisp
c. Smalltalk
d. Eiffel
11. Which of the following are orthogonal pairs?
a. 3i+2j
b. i+j
c. 2i-3j
d. -7i+j
12. Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube
a. 12,8,6
b. 4,6,8 c. 6,8,12
d. 6,12,8
13. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work?
14. In Madras, temperature at noon varies according to -t^2/2 + 8t + 3, where t is elapsed time. Find how much temperature more or less in 4pm to 9pm.
15. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied ?
16. A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 750 meters width. A cable is made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river and 1500mts away from the power unit. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 15/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.12/- per meter. Find the total of laying the cable.
17. .WHICH WILL GIVE GOOD STANDARD DEVIATION
1. (7,0,-7,0,7) 2. (7,-7,7,-7,7) 3. (1,0,-1,0,1)
18. WHICH IS NOT A SIDE OF A RECTANGULAR
1. (2m, 3m, 4m ) 2. (3m, 4m, 7m ) 3. (3m, 5m, 9m )
19. WHICH SHAPE WILL BE OBTAINED BY USING THESE VALUES OF X ,Y
X Y
0 0.00001
10 1.02
100 1.72
1000 3.00
9999 4.72
20. G (0) =1 G (1)= -1 IF G (N)=G (N-1) + G(N-2) THEN WHAT IS THE VALUE OF G (6)?
21. A 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
B 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
C 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
Then find the decimal equivalent of ( A U B ) n C.
22. WHICH ONE WILL BE THE EXACT POWER OF 3
(i) 2768 (ii) 2678 (III) 2187 (IV) …
23. In the word “ORGANISATION” if we change 1st & 2nd, 3rd & 4th, so on then will be 10th letter from right?
24.Then three Questions on VENN DIAGRAM below
HOW MANY PERSON play cricket
HOW MUCH % OF PEOPLE play ALL THE 3 games
HOW MUCH % OF PEOPLE THOSE WHO play cricket and football but not basketball?

Section C was of CRITICAL REASONING .
It consisted of three reasoning and was subdivided into 4 parts each. I don’t remember them but u again have to be well prepared wit GRE BARRONS 12th edition , because all of the reasoning were from there only.

TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
it was in the starting batch of my interview. There were two interviewers in my panel. The questions came as follows
1.Tell us about yourself ?
2. They were not clear about my branch ,as I mentioned E.N. in the application form. So the next question was that which branch is E.N?
3.Which computer languages are you familiar with?
Ans. I had mentioned only ‘C ’language in my cv. So the asked me questions related to that. and one thing more if u don’t know something ,be true for that and accept that u don’t know that. Unnecessarily don’t fiddle with that.
4. They asked me that what is a diode?and give its application?
ans . I simply replied diode is a pn junction which is used in rectifying circuits.they asked me to explain with help of circuit diagram. That was a easy task.
5. What is the frequency of human eyes?
Ans. I didn’t knew it ,and I accepted it. The interviewer replied that it was 18 hz per second.
6. What is a transformer?
Ans .i replied
7.they asked me to draw the waveform for the input voltage at our home?
Ans. It was easy.
8.What this waveform is known as?
Ans. Again a easy one I replied it as sinusoidal wave.
9.They asked me to WAP for multiplication of two matrix?
And some more questions related to my branch…

HR INTERVIEW
There were two persons in the hr interview. They asked me why do I want to join TCS. After that the again came on technical and asked for my area of interest.. I was well prepared with ELECTRICAL MACHINES ,so I opted for it. then some questions came regarding the motors and I was comfortable with them. The asked for my second area of interest… I went for MICROPROCESSORS.They asked me
1. What is a microprocessor?
2. Why it is called a microprocessor?
3. How many types of microprocessors are there ?
4. What is the latest microprocessors used?
5. When was the first microprocessor developed?
Then they came back to electrical…why a bird sitting on the transmission line does not get affected by the current in the line, while a man gets a shock?The then asked that would I work anywhere ,do any sort of work, and work anytime?My answer was obviously YES They then asked that if I had any questions……..
1.I asked about some questions that I heard about TCS during the ppt?
2.I asked about their training programe?