Candidate Information:
- Shruti Srivastava
Overview of Interview Process:
Initial Screening:
The selection process began with an aptitude round that consisted of three sections: Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, and English. After clearing this round, I moved on to the Advanced Round, which included only Quantitative and Logical Reasoning sections, along with two coding questions. The first coding question in my case was an easy-level problem based on finding prime numbers. Only after successfully submitting the first question, the second coding question appeared, which was of medium to hard difficulty.
Technical Round:
After about a month of taking the TCS Prime test, I was offered the Prime role. Approximately ten days later, I was called for an in-person interview at the TCS office in Varanasi. It was a panel interview, with the technical, managerial, and HR interviewers all present together. The technical interviewer began by asking me to introduce myself. Based on my project explanation, he asked questions about the difference between XML and JSON. He then moved on to data structures and asked me to draw a circular queue, place some elements, and determine the positions of the front and rear after performing deletion and insertion operations. I was also asked questions about AVL trees, including their balancing logic and the different tree traversal methods such as inorder, preorder, and postorder. Additionally, I was asked to write a SQL query to create a view from an existing table containing the same records.
Following the technical round, the managerial interviewer asked how I would handle a conflict within a team, and whether I could build a website using only HTML and JavaScript. Lastly, the HR interviewer asked about my willingness to relocate and questioned how I believed I was a better candidate compared to others who had appeared for the interview. Overall, the interview was a mix of technical depth, real-world thinking, and situational judgment.
