TCS Walkin Pattern Of 22-8-04 held in Mumbai

hi friends;
  Hope u all r fine. I appeared for the TCS exam
yesterday(22-Aug-2004) in Mumbai. It was cool. I have
cleared all the three rounds. They will give the final
answer within a week. 
  I reached at 8 am over there but arrangements were
very good and no need to stand in a queue. Facility
for taking Instant Photographs, Photocopies of
Marksheets (or u can submit till Friday if u get to HR
Round at their office), Pencils and Erasers for
writing test. Very supportive.

Pattern:
1. Aptitude Test(2 hours) (OMR TEST)
   PART 1 : VERBAL (32 questions)
            10 Synonyms
            10 Antonyms
            Composition/Paragraph Reading (6
questions)
            Paragraph Blank Completion (6 blanks)

   PART 2 : Analytical / Aptitude (36 Questions)
            Be careful in this section.
            Read the question properly.

            Here you have to write answers after     
            calculating .
            Most questions will not have options. 
            You have to write the final answer in 
            the blanks given.

            Type:
            a) Aptitude Questions.
            b) Which equation of Line is Qrthogonal?
            c) Calculate last address of array element

               [2,3], array size [7,9], each element 
               occupies 8 bytes. Start address is 
               3000. Answer : 3095 
               Note: You have to calculate the last 
               address and not the start address. Her 
               is the catch. You must be attentive.
            d) Data Interpretation. 
                  d1) Venn Diagram. (4 Questions)
                  d2) Graph and Pie Chart (4
Questions)
            e) Which is Singular Matrix out of 4
given?
            f) Height and Distance Question.
            g) Standard Devation is Least out of 4    

               given.
            h) Which is singular matrix out of 4
given?
            i) Series:
               16 19 15 ? 14 21
                Answer: 20 ( 19, 20 ,21) Increasing 
                Order.
            etc....

     PART 3 : Critical Reasoning (12 Questions)

              3 different reasoning questions each 
              having 4 questions. Easy but be careful.

              Make Sure u have time for solving this 
              section as most time will be taken up in

              the other two parts. 

General Instructions:

No Sectional Cut off.
No Negative Marks.
Prepare from ATTACK_TCS.zip file of chetna group.
No Psychometric Test was there for us.

Results after 2.5 hour. (400 selected out of 1500 or
about)

2. TECHNICAL INTERVIEW: ( 1 young man)

The person for me was really very cool. He introduced
himself and made me comfortable.

First wished him.

1. Something about u? (Educational Details very imp.)

2. Have u prepared something about the comapny?(
v.imp)
   I said "no" but I know something about TCS and said

   a little about it.

3. About my Final Sem project?
   Difference beween Multitasking and Multithreading?

4. Which subject do u like? I said C & C++.
   Diff between Structured and Object Oriented 
   Programming?
   What r pointers?
   What is difference betn i++ and ++i? Explain with 
    example?

5. Then questions on OS. He asked that u have studied 
   this subject or not during MCA?
   Name OS Scheduling Algorithms like FCFS, SJB, Round

   Robin etc.
   Premptive and non preemptive scheduling.

6. Question on DBMS.
   Type of DBMS?
   difference betn DBMS and RDBMS?
   Can we insert a new column in a table after a row 
   has been added?
   What is the command to add a column? (ALTER TABLE 
   command) I said the full command.
   Commant to insert a new row? INSERT COMMAND
   He said GOOD.

7. Searching Techniques. 
   I by mistake took it to be for Search Engines and 
   said GOOGLE, etc.
   He said Search as in Linear Search,etc.
   I said Binary Search, Searching by Hashing. 
   (Frankly I had forgotton and said I donot remember 
   all).

   What is binary Search?
   Pre-requisite for Binary Search?
   I had forgotton. He said do u know what 
   pre-requisite is? I explained it to him what it is?
  Then again do u know is there any pre-requisite for 
  Binary Search. Suddenly it clicked me and I said 
  Sorted List.
   He said GOOD.
   
8. List Sorting Techniques.
    I said Bubble Sort, Selection Sort, Quick Sort, 
    Merge Sort, Insertion Sort, etc.

9. He said do u have problem in relocation?
   I said no.

10. Asked whether u want to go in quality field only? 
    As I had during company introduction Stressed 
    About Quality. I said I have no problems in having

    any other job profile now. But in future want to 
    be part of Quality Team.

11. Any problems with working with Any other
Technology
    than C, C++ (as I had said these were my favourite

    subjects).
    I said No.

12. He said our HR team will get in touch with u 
    shortly.

General Instructions:
Always maintain eye contact.
Be Frank. If u dont know say "I dont know". But not  
for all questions.
They will help u a lot.

(100 - 150 shortlisted for HR)

I was given a TCS Employment Form to be filled up.
They also gave food to the people who were there till
8 pm. Tea, Water,etc was provided throughout the day.
They were very supportive.

3. HR INTERVIEW: ( 1 lady and 1 old man)

At 9:30 pm.

I greeted both of them. The lady said hello and the
man said Good Evening.

About yourself.

About ur project.

About company.

Why TCS?

Where u want to see urself in next 3-5 yrs?
I had mentioned Software Programmer then Project Lead
and then Software Quality Analyst in the form. 

They asked is this Quality about process or in
general?
I said in general.

Do u know we have a bond of 2 years for 50K.
If we send abroad u have to sign a bond of 5 lacs?
I said I didnt knew about it.

Do u have any problem with it?
I said no.

Are u willing to Relocate?
I said yes.

They said OK. U may leave.

I again said Good Night and came out. 

Then a few TCS people outside said that we will get in
touch with u in the next 7 working days.

SO it was very cool. 

General Instructions:

Just be confident.
Ur Resume should be true to maximum extent.
For some people they also grilled about the project
and coding in HR also. So be prepared for that also.
Study a lot about the company in advance.

BEST OF LUCK. 
Guys believe me give it a shot. They require a lot of
people. They have walk in next week also.

I am hoping to get selected.

For any queries contact them at 022-56686868. Contact
person Abhishek Tiwari and Manju Salija.

With Care;
Vishal
