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System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
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2 rounds | 4 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
It took me about 1-2 months to prepare for Aptitude and revise CS fundamentals , DSA (very basic) and HR round questions . I was confident that I will be able to crack that . Although I gave some wrong answers in the interview but confidence is the key and you should impress the HR and you are through .
Application story
First NQT took place which consists of Aptitude questions (prepared from indiabix.com) and two coding questions , both were Easy to Medium difficulty and related to Hashmap and Sorting based . Then the students were shortlisted and interview took place after 2 days.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
Confidence is the key to success and during corona period a job in hand is much better than no job at all , so overall It was the need of that hour to clear the rounds at any cost.
Preparation
Duration: 2 Months
Topics: Aptitude , DSA (Basic) , CS fundamentals , HR round questions , Your Projects Summary
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Do atleast 2 projects
Tip 2 : Practise Aptitude , DSA and other interview related questions
Tip 3 : Clean CV (Only write, what you are confident about , and is relevent to tech field only)

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: No backlogs only.
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : One Page only, with atleast one or two projects
Tip 2 : Do not put false things on resume because if he cross checks and you fail to answer ,that will give a wrong and bad impression of you on him.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration180 Minutes
Interview date25 Oct 2021
Coding problem2

You have to register for the test 30 minutes before the starting time, it was a 3 hour test , water and rough paper were provided. 92 questions were there 90 aptitude and 2 coding any language you can select.

1. Repeated DNA Sequences

Moderate
30m average time
70% success
0/80
Asked in companies
eBayBank Of AmericaAmadeus Lab

You are given a string of size ‘N’ consisting of only characters ‘a’,’c’,’g’ and ’t’. You have to find all the sub-strings of the given string of length 10 that is occurring more than once in the given string.

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2. Sort Array

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
HSBCOYOCognizant

You are given an array consisting of 'N' positive integers where each integer is either 0 or 1 or 2. Your task is to sort the given array in non-decreasing order.

Note :
1. The array consists of only 3 distinct integers 0, 1, 2.
2. The array is non-empty.
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02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration45 minutes
Interview date2 Nov 2021
Coding problem2

It was a 30-45 minutes round and easiest of my life.Three people were there tech related , managerial and HR , I was able to solve almost all the questions , the ones which I got wrong were mostly not related to tech and CS and more of current affairs based, it was more of a discussion than an interview .

1. Basic HR Questions

The questions were mostly HR based , asked about my projects , CS fundamentals, DSA basics , questions from CV, about company and around these topics only.

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Prepare more HR based questions
Tip 2 : Practise and try to have some stories with you to anwer HR questions.

2. Factorial of a Number

Moderate
25m average time
70% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Wells FargoTata Consultancy Services (TCS)Squadstack

You are given an integer ‘N’. You have to print the value of Factorial of ‘N’. The Factorial of a number ‘N’ is defined as the product of all numbers from 1 to ‘N’.

For Example:
Consider if ‘N’ = 4, the Factorial of 4 will be the product of all numbers from 1 to 4, which is 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 = 24. Hence, the answer is 24.
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