Record 1359 Offers : Tata Consultancy Services Placement process at SASTRA Thanjavur

 

 

TCS visited SASTRA, Thanjavur on 7th, 8th and 9th December, 2010 and recruited astonishing 1359 students from there. After CTS show at VIT Vellore this is remarkable. TCS in past also recruited in big number from south but it seems highest ever one institute offers..

The process followed by them was aptitude test followed by an interview. Test was conducted online and contains 3 sections; interview was mainly focused on HR and technical questions.

  

Offer by the company:

 

Eligibility	B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA (60%+ in 10th, 12th & B.Tech/PG)
Salary	3.16LPA
Profile Offered	Assistant System Engineer Trainee
Location	Undisclosed
Date of visit	7th, 8th and 9th December 2010
Bond	2 Years’ service bond (Rs.50,000)

Placement Process Details:

Recruitment procedure: The process followed by TCS was: 

1. Aptitude Test (Online)

2. Personal interview

Aptitude Test:

-Online

-Quantitative: 80 minutes, 35 questions 

Questions asked by TCS

 

1) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round

2) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success . Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

3) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of and from 1 to 70. Statement n says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

4) Middle earth  is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarfish and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarfish and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tourney is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different   rounds where in every round, half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tourney how many matches were played?

5)Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side.
The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position(.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is

 
6)The citizens of planet negate are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in negate contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?

Personal Interview:

 

Interview was both TECH and HR

Tech interview:

In Tech interview following things were asked: DBMS - Normalization, SQL Queries, SQL Tuning OS - Mutex, Semaphores etc. C - Swapping without third variable, GCD / LCM, Fibonacci.

Mainly asked from your project and area of interest..

HR Interview: In HR normal questions were asked like why do you want to join us and why should I hire you etc.

Tell me about yourself?

Why should I hire you?

Why TCS?

Why IT sector?

Latest trend in IT sector?

How do you see yourself in 5 years?

 

Result:

Total: 1359

 

Company Profile: 

 

Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS Limited) is one of the world's largest providers of information technology, consulting, services and business-process outsourcing operations. As of 2007, it is Asia's largest and India's No.1 IT services firm with the largest number of employees among all the Indian IT companies with strength of over 100,000 IT consultants in 47 countries.