General Information's:-

Technical Rounds
TCS Interviewer will try to keep the Technical Round to basic C programming Codes, Basic theory
and definitions and Focus more on your English.

Duration of Interview - Duration of Interview is around 15 – 20 mins

Coding Questions
Cognizant, TCS, Wipro will ask you coding questions like Palindrome, pattern printing etc even if
you’re from Non CS IT round with minimum expectation to extract atleast the logic involved.

C / OOPS Questions
TCS will necessarily ask some basic C / OOPS concept to all Branches. Well, you’re
applying to an IT company they expect you to know a little about C / OOPS theory.

Freedom of Topic Selection

All bulk companies, including TCS, give freedom of topic selection to you, generally the interviewer
will ask you the favourite subject and will ask questions from that, or will ask you the questions from
topics, chapters and projects mentioned in your Resume.

Pre-Interview Gestures:

The following are trends in TCS Interview –

1. They always welcome the candidate to the interview room with greeting and smile.
2. Always ask student
1. How was your day
2. Tell me about yourself(even in technical round)
3. Try to make student comfortable if he/she is nervous
4. Ask about bad scores in graduations, 10th or 12th

C-Questions:-

 What is a pointer?
 What is a dangling pointer?
 What is a data type?
 What is size of integer data type?
 What is the size of char data type?
 What is the size of unsigned char?
 What is the size of signed char?
 What is the size of long?
 What is the size of short?
 What is the range of integer data type in C?
 What is the size of float data type?
 What is malloc?
 What is the difference between do while and for loop?
 What is a string?
 /0 in string?
 What is recursion?
  What is printf?
 What is math.h?
 What is the argument of a function?
 What is assignment operator in C?
 What is the relational operator in C?
 What is the logical operator in C?
 What is the bitwise operator in C?
 What are all decision control statements in C?
 What are all loop control statements in C?
 What is the difference between while and do-while loops in C?
 What is the difference between single equal “=” and double equal “==” operators in C?
 What is the difference between pre increment operator and post increment operator?
 What is the difference between pre decrement operator and post decrement operator?
 What is “&” and “*” operators in C?

OOPS

1. What are virtual Functions?

2. What is overloading?
3. What is overriding?
4. What is polymorphism?
5. What is data abstraction?
6. What is encapsulation?
7. What is inheritance?
8. What is constructor?
9. What is destructor?
10. Abstract Classes vs Interfaces
11. How to implement Multiple Inheritance in C++?
12. What are the Features of OOPS?
13. How to use this keyword?
14. What is static keyword?
15. What is a class?
16. What is difference between struct and object?
17. What is an object?
18. What is friend function?
19. What are access modifiers?
20. Difference between private and protected?
21. What is keyword Auto for?

Core Department Subjects

Interviewer will give preference to the area of interest / subject mentioned in the candidate resume
and pick up the questions related to the papers published, additional courses mentioned,
certifications etc., Sometimes, he initiates the questions and then based on the answers they will ask
subsequent questions.

Project Based Questions

It is almost common questions for all the students to know the students interest in doing their
projects and their innovations along with any creative solutions. They like to understand the project
and the candidate role in the project. Preferences will be given to challenges faced and its solutions
identified by the students during the project phase. Even though, some of students will be answering
that they have project in final semester, TCS will be eager to know whether had real interest in doing
project and expects a minimum of problem statement of their project.

Post Interview Gestures:-

 Do you have any questions for us?

 Like to share any other information (Optional)

Scoring Pattern of TCS- Technical Interview

TCS asks interviewer to fill the interview feedback in 5 categories

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. Average
4. Agree
5. Strongly Agree
They will check mark one option from above for the following questions –

Technical

1. Candidate has positive attitude towards learning

2. Candidate is good at coding abilities
3. Candidate has high potential to pick up a technology and expertise it, given he is provided
with training
4. Candidate has good proficiency in his core branch subjects
5. Candidate is able to make cross arguments in professional English