What is your TCS digital interview experience?

The interview took place for almost an hour in which all the three, TR,MR and HR were there. Initially I have two interviewers in front of me for TR. They are very cool and asked all the questions very pleasantly and made me feel comfortable.

I think I am one of the few candidates who might have taken this interview twice with in the same academic year..!

Yes, you heard me right..!

For the first time, it was a drive in my college on july 5th I think.. there were 4 slots per day and I took my test in the last slot. Not even a single test case in the coding round was successful. But only after completion of the test, I came to know that the situation is same for everyone in that slot. So the chances were 50 – 50 and I am waiting for the results of written test. To my surprise, I am in the list of shortlisted candidates for interview (19). The interview was scheduled in TCS office at Gachibowli on 19th of the same month. But this interview experience is not a success story just like in all the other answers written below.

The interview took place for almost an hour in which all the three, TR,MR and HR were there. Initially I have two interviewers in front of me for TR. They are very cool and asked all the questions very pleasantly and made me feel comfortable. They have majorly concentrated on Data Structures and Algorithms as I told them that they were my subjects of interest. TR took place for around 30 minutes. Then one among those two interviewers got separated and took me to the MR round. There he has asked me some managerial questions and some questions on Data Mining Techniques. It took place for another 20 minutes. Then they told me to wait for result of TR and MR. A common thing in interviews at TCS( my own observation) is, if a candidate is asked to stay back for HR round, there are 90% of the chances that he will be selected. (But I don’t know this at that moment). I was asked to wait for HR here. The Hr was a lady and she observed that I am looking at the previous candidate’s HR. So she came to me and gave me an A4 sheet to fill it with the answers for following questions:

  1. What is happening in this room.
  2. Where do you want to see yourself after 5 years
  3. Write an email to your superior asking for a leave (no reason mentioned).

She wanted me to write these answers by facing the opposite direction so that I don’t have a view of them.

I am in a dilemma because of the following reasons:

  1. First of all, I am prepared to say something like…. Hi this is vijay and so on…
  2. That 1st question was stunning
  3. I am not prepared to write an email as it was not a part of my earlier test (But I know it earlier because of Cambridge assessment tests).

Some how I am done with the answers for those questions with my level of creativity and that HR is also about to complete the Hr round of that candidate.

Then it was my turn and she took the sheet from me. It seems like she was impressed with the answers and she asked me some basic questions of my name and interest of joining and said that she was done with the interview and placed a symbol “E” against my name. She herself asked me for meaning of that and on saying I don’t know that, she told me the meaning for that was “Excellent”. I am very happy with that and cam back to home. I am expecting a positive result. After some 3–4 days the result came to college and I am shocked on listening to the result from my Dean that I was offered a NINJA role instead of DIGITAL and only a single girl from the college was offered a DIGITAL role. My Dean also told that “this opportunity may be the last one to get digital because through the TNQT test, even though there was a possibility, there are many less chances as none of our seniors go through that way”.

That was the day that I will never forget in my life, when my first interview was neither a success nor a failure.

Then the second opportunity was through TNQT, which was a long procedure to go till DIGITAL. The procedure here is

  1. Take the TNQT test
  2. Should be toppers among the TNQT so that they will get a chance for digital test again
  3. Take the digital test at some other location
  4. If shortlisted, will be called for an interview at TCS office at Gachibowli.
  5. If the interview is also successful, will be offered a digital role, if not will be remained with same NINJA role.

From here my answer will be almost same as the answer by Zeblearnindia since we both went through the same procedure and I am happy to say that this time, I am able to clear all the rounds and almost after a month gap, the offer letter was placed in the portal in which, it was mentioned that I was offered with a digital role.

So this was my entire journey in getting the Digital Offer at TCS. I came across many things in this journey like tough times, expectations,rejections, support,etc.. But I am happy today that I am able to crack it finally.

I felt that this was already a long answer so I did not gave much details about the second time experience because it was a successful attempt and you will get plenty of experiences that were successful but you can hardly get an unexpected failure experience. Hope you like it..