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Important Notes

TCS NQT Online test follows the Integrated Test Pattern(ITP) which
means that students performing well in the foundation section and
advanced section will be shortlisted for Prime or Digital Interview and
students performing well only in the foundation section will be
shortlisted for Ninja Interview.
If the candidate qualifies in the first round then he/she will be selected
for the interview process via phone or mail. The duration of a TCS
Digital interview is of 60-70 minutes while sometime it might last over
90 minutes, whereas the duration of a TCS Ninja interview is of 20 or 30
minutes.
TCS Technical Interview Process
The technical interview is different for Digital & Ninja job profiles. So,
the interviewer will ask questions related to programming languages
and technology for Ninja profiles.
On the contrary, they may ask questions related to Data Structures &
algorithms and competitive Programming, as well as you even require a
grasp of any trending technology like Big Data, Data Science, IOT,
Cloud, etc for Prime and Digital profiles.
TCS interviews are conducted by multiple panels and people hence
there is always a slight variation in the level of difficulty and type of
questions every student faces

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Important Notes

Questions mentioned in this PDF below are for reference and might
change as per the interviewer. As we cannot predict the actual
questions it is always better to prepare for all aspects.
Students from Non-CS-IT backgrounds should prepare fundamentals of
programming languages and the latest technologies you mentioned in
your resume. Some branch-specific core subjects’ questions might be
asked.
Don't by heart give subject-specific technical questions as it is, those
questions won't come as they are, consider them as a reference. Focus
more on your resume.
For TCS, some students may have one two, or three interviews. It
depends on the interviewer panel. For some students TR, HR, and MR
can be combined in one interview, for some students it can be a
separate interview.
Note: It is always better to have a Mock Interview to boost up the
confidence and chances of selection.

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Technical Interview Questions List

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 the certifications and internships that you have
mentioned in your resume.
How you are preparing yourself to compete with the current demands
of the industry?
Tell me something about the latest technologies like AI, ML, IoT, and
Cloud Computing.
Tell me about Dynamic Programming and the Greedy Approach.
How will you calculate time complexity?
Which programming language do you prefer the most?
What do you mean by Software Patch?
How will you define the 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 variables.

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Technical Interview Questions List

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?
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?

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Technical Interview Questions List

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 the reference key?
What is the differences and similarities 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 most efficiently?
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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Technical Interview Questions List

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?

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Technical Interview Questions List

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?
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
What is BFS?
What is JDK?

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Technical Interview Questions List

How to split strings in Java?

Explain the swapping of two numbers without using the third variable.
Write a program to check palindromes.
What is Recursion?
What is a Database?
What is JVM?
Explain the use of the join() function in Python.
Explain the use of the break statement.
What is a Tuple?
Mention different types of operators in Python.
What is the use of DCL Language?
Which is more important: money or work?
Why should we hire you?
What is DBMS?
List some features of JavaScript
Mention use of help() and dir() function in Python.
What is meant by DOM?
List a few advantages of Packages in Java.
List a few advantages of DBMS.
What is a clustered index in SQL?
What is the purpose of a default constructor in Java?

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Technical Interview Questions List

Is it possible to overload the constructors?

What is the static variable?
Is it possible to execute a program without the main() method?
What are functions in Python?
Why do lambda forms in Python do not have the statements?
What is Inheritance?
What are the data types present in JavaScript?
List the types of Data Structures.
Which data structure is used to perform recursion?
Mention the operations that can be performed on a stack?
What is the queue in a data structure?
Define Polymorphism.
What is the correct output of this example: A[4] if A=[1,3,6,7,9,2,4]?
What is the SQL query to display the current date?
Why did you leave your last job?
List the types of tree
How would you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 5?
What are the uses of the super keyword?
What is a constraint?
What is the structure?

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HR Interview Questions List

Tell me about yourself

What do you know about 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?
If you are a team leader and one of your team members is not
responding well, how will you handle such a situation?
Being alone child to your parents how do you feel? Family background?
Will your parents support 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 & weaknesses
What are your strengths & weakness that you would like to improve?
Any weakness? How are you working on weaknesses? What you want to
improve in yourself
Why IT company?

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HR Interview Questions List

1 negative and 1 positive thing about TCS

Ready to relocate?
Hobbies, Interests, 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 in the company's growth?
Why you have mentioned good management qualities ins resume? can
you justify (with an example)
Where do you see yourself in 2 years., What do you expect in future?
After joining TCS what will you do? Where do you see after 5 years?
5 points 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?
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 if you get selected?
Which area would you prefer? How was your technical? Which is your
area of interest? Area of interest to work in TCS

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HR Interview Questions List

Are you adaptable to any situation? Give example

Have you lead any team/controlled crowd of people efficiently?
Is working in team good or alone? Why?
How do you manage your stress?
What is meant by IT Infrastructure?
If you are mentioning in resume that you have ability of problem-
solving then which problem you recently faced?
Opinion about women's empowerment?
Do you have friends in XYZ city
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 questions?
How you are multitasking?
How you are innovative?
How was your TI and MR?
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Tell me one policy for women that TCS provides
2 challenges faced in Engg. 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?

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HR Interview Questions List

If you want to choose the best manager from Shri Krishna and Shri
Rama then whom will you choose? Why?
What is TATA Swachh?
You are from Mechanical so why are you applying for an IT company?
Are you ready to work in an IT company being a mechanical engineer?
Are you satisfied with 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?

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HR Interview Questions List

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?
What will you do if your leader is arrogant as well as members are
arrogant?
Why you didn't join army?
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?"

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HR Interview Questions List

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 a creative thing that you have done in your engineering?
Do you 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 as being mechanical student?
Tell me 3 things which you don’t like.
Which game do you play?
Problem-solving attitude, have you solved any problems in practical
life?
Will you work in the IT Sector?
what you have done in your extracurricular activities
Your project is core mechanical why do you want to switch to a
computer
you have less knowledge about IT as compared to others how you
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Why Mechanical?
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.
Who is your role model?
What is your view about our president?
Why this college?
Why come in Pune?
Favorite Subject.
Which movie you recently watched? Do you see Hollywood/Bollywood
movies? Which movie you like the most?
What do you do on weekends?
Any software courses?

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MR Interview Questions List

If your boss is arrogant, he asks you to work for 10- 11hrs, daily, how will
you react to the situation?
If you have written a code & your friend in the team shows the code to
the boss, how will you react
If your boss is arrogant & your team members are also arrogant. how
will you handle that situation?
How will you manage your job after your marriage?
How will you work on a project in one year?
Share Some Extracurricular activities you have done.
Meaning of name
You have to do a project with 5 people whom you hate, so how will you
manage?
Two graduates, one brilliant but lazy, and arrogant, other not brilliant
but sincere and hardworking. you have to give appraisal, whom you will
give better."
What if you are not given your preferred area?
Situation: - Convincing to client after refusing the project
Which quantity do you have that is different so that you get a job in
TCS?
Any new invention/technology that you like?
How about growth in the company when it comes to everyday change?

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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 be completed.
Who is CEO & chairman TCS & tata group?
Do you know what is KAIZEN?
Any specific goal in life?
How did you deal with the pressure situation?
Explain the things not in CV.
If you are doing work on embedded systems then why are you joining IT
IS in TCS?
Difference between leader and manager
What you will do if anyone slaps you
If your company is in a very bad situation and everyone is resigning,
how you will stop them?
Where do you see yourself 5 years down the line and 20 years down the
line?
What are your aspirations? Where do you see yourself 2 years down the
line?
What according to you is the wrong thing going on around you?
What is more important? Money or Work?

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If a computer guy works better than you and if I give him good pay then
is it an 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?
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

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