(IT student having 10th grade- 84.2% 12th grade-78.7% and graduation score-75.3%)
Technical Interview:
What are the different types of integration testing?
Differentiate between RAM and ROM.
Define macros.
What do you understand by multi-threading and multi-tasking?
What do you mean by the term "normalization"?
When should structures be passed by values or by reference?
How are Windows programs different from normal C-programs?
Give some salient points of difference between request processor and request dispatcher.
Have you written applications to retrieve stored images in a table?
HR Interview:
Which is the last book that you read?
Do you have any questions for us?
What is your favorite subject?
Are you willing to travel? How much?
Is money important to you?
How much money do you need to make to be happy?
Would you rather work with information or with people?
Are you a team player?
What motivates you?
Why should I hire you?
What kind of salary are you looking for?
What motivates you to join Tech Mahindra?
Rate your interview on a scale of 10.
Excerpts from Interview #2:
(CSE student with 7.34 CGPA and having 87.5 % in 12th and 90 % in 10th standard.)
Technical interview:
A lot of questions based on networking theory and networking models were asked.
Explain these terms: Stack, Queue, Array and Linked List
What are static variables and functions?
How would you rename a function in C?
What do you understand by modular programming?
Give a general algorithm for converting a m-array tree to a 2-ary tree.
How many links are there in a binary tree of N nodes?
Have you used threaded trees anytime in your life time?
How is a macro different from a function?
HR Interview:
What new value can you add to our organization?
A difficult situation was described. How would you deal with this situation?
Tell me a time when you were disappointed in your behavior.
What were your favorite subjects during the course of your study?
Why is your CGPA low?
What projects did you undertake during your engineering? Describe your role in these projects.
How would rate yourself in technical and communication skills?
Excerpts from Interview #3:
(ECE student with profile as 6.52 CGPA and having 71.4 % in 12th and 74.5 % in 10th.)
Technical interview:
Which technology does Pentium use - RISC or CISC?
How would you create a footprint in your PCB designer software (say, Altium)?
How many times do you reuse the code that you develop? How do you reuse it?
Explain Cloud computing.
Describe horizontal scalability and vertical scalability.
What is an adaptive learning bridge?
Tell me operating systems used in mobile.
Write a program for finding factorial of a number.
Why doesn't FORTRAN support recursion?
HR Interview:
Suppose you have to submit an assignment in one hour and say, the power goes out. What steps will you undertake?
Why should we select you over others?
Do you enjoy doing independent research?
Where do you want to be ten years from now?
Why did you choose this career?
When did you decide on this career?
Excerpts from Interview #4:
(Computer Science Engineering student with profile as 7.7 CGPA and having 84.4 % in 12th and 86.2 % in 10th.)
Technical interview:
Describe the Diamond problem. Where does this problem occur?
Differentiate between C and C++.
Write a program using SQL queries to find a unique entry in a table.
Difference between short term, long term and medium term scheduler.
Differentiate between compilers and interpreters.
Devise a program to implement the Fibonacci sequence.
Describe these Operating System concepts: Fragmentation, Segmentation
Differentiate between swapping and paging.
How does a debugger set breakpoints in a code you are debugging?
HR Interview:
How has your experience been at your institute of graduation? What were your key takeaways?
Why do you wish to join TCS? Do you not wish to join any other software firm visiting your campus?
What are your future plans?
What are your strengths? Weakness?
If you could be any animal, what would it be?
How can you contribute to this company?
What kind of a manager would you be?
Excerpts from Interview #5:
(ECE background with profile as 7.25 CGPA and having 79.1 % in 12th and 84.7 % in 10th.)
Technical interview:
Write the Shortest path algorithm for a graph.
What are the complexities of sorting algorithms and how can this complexity be calculated?
Define binary tree insertion.
What 'lex' does?
Differentiate between a constructor and a method in C++.
Differentiate between an Interface and an Abstract class?
What are the various IPC mechanisms? Why is message passing costlier than semaphore?
What happens when main () method is declared as private?
HR Interview:
How do you see your progress while working at Tech Mahindra?
Who or what has had the greatest influence on your life?
What motivates you to put forth your best effort?
How has your education prepared you for a career?
What qualifications do you have that make you think that you will be successful in this career?
How do you define or evaluate success?
Why motivates you to join Tech Mahindra?
What is the reason behind your numerous rejections in the campus placement processes?
Describe your various hobbies. What do you like to do in your free time?
Excerpts from Interview #6:
(IT student with profile as 6.25 CGPA and having 78.5 % in 12th and 87.3 % in 10th.)
Technical interview:
How to install Apache Server on our Machines?
What are the numerous projects that you've undertaken? Describe the basic working of these projects? What problems did you face?
What are skew trees? For a tree with 4 nodes draw all possible binary? Generalize for n nodes how many binary trees can be drawn?
What is 2 dimensional linked list?
What environment variables are required to be set on a machine in order to run Java programs?
How and who handles data looping?
Define syntax and semantic errors.
How would you react in case: Your manager gives you a problem that you have no idea how to solve, but you need to submit the solution in 2 hours? Wow would you react to it?
HR Interview:
Has there been a situation when you’ve had any idea but have not been able to implement it?
What are your interests and hobbies? How do you spend your free time?
Do you have any plans for further education?
How much training do you think you'll need to become a productive employee?
What qualities do you feel a successful manager should have?
