TCS Interview Process, Complete Guide, Hiring Tips, Experience

TCS Interview Process, Complete Guide, Hiring Tips, Experience

Tejasvee Sharma

Oct 07, 2021 - 7 Min read

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is one of the prestigious and renowned IT services, consulting, and business solutions, having more than 3.5 lakh employees and branches in 46 countries worldwide. It is one of the best companies in India which professionals want to join. So here we have brought you the complete guide of the TCS Interview process, which tells you about the number of rounds and type of questions etc., to prepare well for TCS hiring.

How do you apply for TCS jobs?

To know about the availability of TCS career opportunities, you can explore the following options:

TCS Careers Page
Job Sites
LinkedIn
Other Social Media Sites
Placement Agencies

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How to Apply For TCS Recruitment:

To apply for TCS Jobs, you need to follow the procedure and create an account. Generally, the complete hiring process takes about a month after screening the CV by the talent team. Here’s how you can apply for the job:

Initially, you need to visit the TCS Careers page.
If you are a fresher, you can proceed with “Entry-Level Hiring.” If you are a working professional with experience, you can select the “Experienced” option available on the homepage.
Now explore the vacancies and apply for suitable jobs after going through the job description, role, and functions.
Now “Register” yourself by providing the personal and professional information, and after creating an account, you can apply for the job and track the status.

TCS Recruitment Process:

The main rounds of the TCS recruitment process are discussed below:

Written Exam
Technical Interview
Managerial Interview
HR Interview

1. TCS Written Exam:

The written exam has four sections that need to be covered in a total time duration of 90 minutes. The four sections include:

Quantitative Aptitude Test: In the Quantitative Aptitude test, your numerical and reasoning ability was tested. This section has 20 questions to be attempted in a 40 minutes duration. This section contains more weightage and is a bit tricky to answer. There is also 1/3rd negative marking for every wrong answer. Essential topics include Number system, Equations, Ratio and Proportion, Percentage, Profit and Loss, Time and Work, Time Speed Distance, Areas and Mensuration, Averages, Permutations and Combinations, Probability, Plane geometry, Truth, and Lie based puzzles.
Programming Language Efficiency Test: This section mainly has general questions from computer science and programming languages. In this section, you need to answer 10 to 12 questions within a 20 minutes duration.
Coding Round: This is a descriptive technical coding round in which you will be provided 1 to 2 questions that you need to answer within 20 minutes.
Email writing: Be careful while attempting this section, as it is a crucial elimination round. In this section, you will be given certain clues/words. By using them, you have to write an email addressing the scenario within 10 minutes. The critical thing to keep in mind is you have to use all the words given without missing even a single one.

There is some relaxation for candidates. Suppose you have appeared in TCS CodeVita and scored rank under 1000 in CodeVita round 1. In that case, you can directly appear for interviews, or if you have achieved 8.5 or 80%, you can appear for only verbal ability and email writing tests.

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Paper pattern of TCS written exam

There are 1/3 or 0.33 negative markings for every wrong answer in the quantitative aptitude and programming test.
There is no negative marking in the English and coding section.

2. TCS Technical interview:

Candidates who score good marks in the written round are called for Technical Interview. To clear this round, you must have your basic concepts clear and good knowledge of programming and coding. You can be asked about Data structures and Algorithms, Networking, and other essential concepts, and a programming language of your choice. You might be asked to write codes or solve puzzles in a technical interview.

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3. TCS Managerial Round:

It is a more challenging round than the previous one as the questions are technical and general, plus it will be under pressure with a lot of cross-checking. The interviewer doubts your answers and comes up with different statements to check if you can handle stress or not. The primary key to clear this round is to be calm, confident, and clear on your thoughts and lose out on pressure. If you don’t know the answer, you must state that or try to attempt it with whatever you know, but if you don’t know the answers, then don’t give wrong answers.

4. TCS HR Round:

It is the last round of the TCS recruitment process. It is a general round in which HR tests your behavior, working background by asking anything related to your personality, family, education, hobbies, internships, general knowledge, basic HR questions like Why should I hire you?, If any problem in relocation, etc. It would be best if you were confident about everything you speak.

Describe yourself.
What does TCS do?
The biggest strength of TCS?
What are your areas of interest?
Tell three strengths and weaknesses?
Are you ready to work anywhere in India?
Where do you see yourself in the next five years?
Why TCS?

Skill Set Required for TCS Interview:

TCS always looks for skillful candidates; many skills will be tested in different rounds of TCS interviews. But three essential skills are required to work in TCS.

Aptitude Solving Skills: It is a skill set required to decide what to do in a particular situation and what decision to take, which requires knowledge, learned or acquired abilities, and decision-making capabilities.
Technical Skills: It is important for a professional to have specialized knowledge and know the issues and how to rectify them.
Communication Skills: It is a very important skill to possess by a professional, you must have excellent verbal and written communication, and you must communicate in a way that the receiver must understand clearly, what you are conveying.

Other than these skills, you need to understand life skills that will help you make your gateway to TCS and help you in prosperous growth in company and life. Resilience, time management, technical savvy, etc., are the crucial ones, follow this blog by TCS Understanding Life Skills to know better.

TCS Interview Experience:

Here we are sharing an experience of Nikhil Vemu who cracked the TCS Digital Interview, Let’s see what process he have to go through during the TCS Interview. Firstly, he has to take a test which consists of questions on English, Aptitude, and Coding. The questions are not tough which is of 110 minutes duration. After clearing this round Nikhil got a mail for a technical interview which happened virtually via MS Teams on a fixed schedule.

The interviewer ask questions related to his project, certification, and technical questions on networking devices, OOPS, and what TCP & UDP are. After clearing this round he undergoes another round of interviews i.e. managerial interview in which he was asked about future goals, why we hire you? Teamwork, etc. In the final round, HR generally takes the interview to check his behavior and whereabouts, etc. which was got over in minutes. After few days he got a mail related to his selection and joining. You can read the complete TCS Interview Experience here.

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Here we have given all the details required for the TCS hiring process, but for more in-depth knowledge, you can check the TCS Careers pages, which will provide you with complete insights regarding a particular job category.