HOW TO CRACK INTO TCS

PHASE ONE: APTITUDE TEST
We had an Online Aptitude Test...NO NEGATIVE MARKING BUT SECTIONAL CUT-OFF(so everyone attend every single question,provided you have the same conditions).

We had three sections in the Aptitude Test:
Verbal was difficult....in the sense that it didn't have words from previous papers!!!
Quantitative Aptitude was the easiest,i had already seen 90% of the questions from this section,in the previous TCS papers.
Logical Reasoning or whatever one calls it,was Latin and Greek for me. I think one can get a good idea about it from BARRONS 12th EDITON.

PHASE TWO:TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
Once you clear the aptitude test(level one) you are  75% done.We then move on to the Technical interview.The interviewers were really friendly...especially mine.There was a gentleman(also a KVites).I opened the door and asked their permission to enter,with a 1000W smile on my face.They asked me take my seat...I thanked him and sat down.My resume was on my lap..they never asked for it.All they referred to was the application form that I had filled.

The gentleman(sadly i do not remember his name) broke the ice by asking an informal questions...anyway my reply was confident.He then asked me about my favourite subject,which was as i said,Physics(surprised??so was i,when he asked about school subjects!!).

He asked me what SONAR meant...i really didn't remember..so i managed by telling him,it was related with sound and had DOPPLER EFFECT as a basis.He said,"That's good.But can you explain?". I told him i didn't remember.

Then he asked me about Concave & Convex Lens and Kepler's Law Of Gravitation. I managed both correctly,and we moved on to the core subjects(at last!!!!). My areas of interest are DBMS. He asked me about the Various Phases of S/w Engineering (a very general question). I was able to answer them. Then I was asked to write a c-program to reverse a string(a success) and later on,the question was about Singularly Linked-List from Data-Structures.And finally,DBMS concepts were touched upon....i spoke confidentially for two minutes,when they asked me to stop. I had the feeling things were going to turn out well...!

In between I had actually stammered once,but I was not reprimanded.They reassured me by letting me know that they knew exactly how I was feeling.I was asked to relax,ask a glass of water if needed and then to continue…from hereon I spoke confidently till the end of the HR,making sure i made no lapse in speech.

At the end,they asked me weather I had any questions..I enquired about the prospect of higher education through TCS.After giving me satisfactory answers,they asked to wait outside.

And there I was,waiting nervously outside my TECHNICAL interview room...and when finally,I was asked to go down for the MR(same as HR) interview.....RELIEF ebbed through my entire body.I knew for sure that once I had reached this level,i was not going to return home disappointed.

THE FINAL PHASE:
I could see happy faces outside the HR room..evidently fuelled by the fact that they will get selected.I had to wait a long time to meet my HR interviewer(he was a bit busy) which I did not mind at all.Meanwhile I asked my other friends as to what they were asked…some unlucky guys were drilled a lot on tech..most of the people had just a casual chat.
Finally i went in to meet my interviewer.I was beaming at him and when I reached the table,we shook hands and sat down.He was really sweet.He actually apologised for the delay(3hours actually)..i said it was no problem.

He initially asked me why i wanted to join TCS..i answered it straight from the books.
Next,"OK these are the reasons u want to join TCS. Why should we hire you?". Bookish answer again.

Moving on,we had a good chat on F1 as he too was a follower.We had a good fight over whether "Micheal Schumacher" should return or not. Later did i realized that it went too informal, i should have restrained from being too augmentative. Finally he asked me as to weather i have any questions....i asked him not one,but THREE!!

1.sir,the prospects of higher education in TCS.
2.What does TCS actually expect from its newly-joining freshers??
3.What actually happens during the training?and after the training??

When we were finished, we shook hands and left with the words,"it was a pleasure meeting u Sir." I had a feeling of jubilation when i came out. It was a long wait for the results starting at 5pm which eventually ended at 8:30pm. When my name was read out it was like,” oh my god, I really made it through”.I was delighted. I thanked GOD and congratulated all my friends.

HOW TO CRACK INTO AMDOCS

I would like to share with you my interview experience with one of the most reputed IT firm in Telecom sector i.e."Amdocs"

To start off it was in  Aug 2010 end and after the major recession hit the market and economy had started gathering some pace and which in result did created

some opening in the slump market after almost a year. It wae a open campus in Amdocs and after few days I got mail from Amdocs that I have to attend the

apptitude test in Magarpatta City,Pune where they have there office and they did communicate me about the rounds and the process. There were atleast 4000

students that day for the drive.

That Saturday I had my first round i.e. written round, the office is build up in a very nice location and the infrastructure if the office is very good.
We were seated in a cafeteria and we were to complete our 6 section online written test conducted by some third party for Amdocs. We have to complete our

test in stipulated time of 120 minutes (2hrs.)
The test consisted of the following:

1) It had 6 sections in all and each section has particular time limit and marks.
2) In the entire 6 sections there were around 105 questions
3) You have to complete the test in the time frame allocated to that particular test.
4) There were no negative marking.
5) You cannot come back to the previous section of test as it is time frame compliant.
6) You need to score minimum of 50+% in order to clear this round.
7) It had various sections viz :
a. Aptitude
b. Maths
c. English Comprehension
d. Testing
e. SQL
f. Unix

My personal Advice is that please don't apply for Amdocs if you are not clear with your SQL and UNIX as it is pre condition if you want to be part of Amdocs

as all or major of there projects require these skills.

My results were mailed to me in next 2 weeks (it took this long because of this large number otherwise it takes less) as I was short listed in this round

then I had to go for the second round which was technical interview round. My interview was scheduled at 11am and it almost started on time with two

interviewers starting it off with their introduction and then drilling deep and trying to capture my knowledge about Testing, Unix and SQL. . Please do study

SQL and UNIX as they would not entertain you if you are weak in these areas as it's a precondition to join Amdocs. After that we had 1st round of technical

interview and my interview lasted for almost 45minutes in that they asked me almost everything about C, C++, Testing, Unix and SQL. I think that there was

nothing left to ask about that more in c,java,DBMS. I waited outside and was eager to hear the good news as I was almost certain that I would be able to

clear this as my interview went of pretty well..

Now just one round was left to crack which was HR and Negotiations round my HR round was scheduled in next half an hour and they asked pretty obvious

questions such as :

1) What do you know about Amdocs ?
2) Tell about your few quality traits that can let the organization grow?
3) What all appreciations you have got and for what ?
4) How is it better from your previous organization?
5) Why do you want to join Amodocs?
6) What is your expected salary?
7) Where do you see yourself after 5 years?

And few other HR related questions the HR told me to fill a form and congratulated me for being a part of AMDOCS . One week later they mailed me my offer

letter.

Thanks.