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TCS SDE-2 Interview Questions, Process, and Tips
Top TCS SDE-2 Interview Questions and Answers
- Q1. Prime time again You have been given two integers ‘DAY_HOURS’ and ‘PARTS’. Where ‘DAY_HOURS’ is the number of hours in a day and a day can be divided into ‘PARTS’ equal p ...read more
- Q2. Minimum Operations You are given an array 'ARR' of 'N' positive integers. You need to find the minimum number of operations needed to make all elements of the array equal ...read more
- Q3. Edit Distance You are given two strings 'S' and 'T' of lengths 'N' and 'M' respectively. Find the "Edit Distance" between the strings. Edit Distance of two strings is the ...read more
3 TCS SDE-2 Interview Experiences
8 questions found
CodingNinjas
I was interviewed in Dec 2020.
2 Interview Rounds
Coding Test Round (1 Question)
Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
It was in the morning about 10:00AM-10:40AM. The platform used for this round was hackerrank. There are 15 MCQ's which cover portions of Aptitude, Data Structures, DBMS, SQL
- Q1. Minimum Operations You are given an array 'ARR' of 'N' positive integers. You need to find the minimum number of operations needed to make all e...read more View Answers (3)
HR Round (1 Question)
Round duration - 15 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
It was in the night around 7:00PM-7:20PM. Platform used for this round was skype. Interviewer was very serious while taking my interview.
- Q1. Basic HR Questions
Who is your role model?
Why should we hire you?
View Answers (1)
Interview Preparation Tips
Tip 1 : Practice as much as you can
Tip 2 : Try to get a good hold in Data Structures
Tip 3 : Do atleast 2 projects
Tip 1 : It should not be too long or too short.
Tip 2 : Each skill should be mentioned properly.
I was interviewed in Sep 2020.
3 Interview Rounds
Coding Test Round (1 Question)
Round duration - 180 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard
Timing: 8 a.m. to 11a.m.
Environment was optimum.
No significant activity.
- Q1. Edit Distance You are given two strings 'S' and 'T' of lengths 'N' and 'M' respectively. Find the "Edit Distance" betw...read more View Answers (3)
Video Call Round (1 Question)
Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
Timing: 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The environment was quite good.
No significant activity.
Interviewers were very friendly. They were behaving like friends.
- Q1. SQL Qusestions What is the difference between drop and truncate? How would you sort and display a column of table in descending order? Create a table with prima...read more Add Answer
HR Round (1 Question)
Round duration - 15 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
Timing: 3:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.
Environment was very good.
No significant activity was monitored.
HR was very good and friendly.
- Q1. Basic HR Questions
Why tcs?
What are your expectations?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
View Answers (1)
Interview Preparation Tips
Tip 1 : Do minimum 3 projects
Tip 2 : Prepare every topic of DSA for interview
Tip 3 : Hands on experience in performing MySql commands
Tip 1 : Be precise and don't bluff
Tip 2 : Learn atleast 2 programming languages
Tip 3 : Do projects on latest technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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I was interviewed before Sep 2020.
3 Interview Rounds
Coding Test Round (1 Question)
Round duration - 360 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard
Timing- Any 6 hours of my choice in the 24 hour window. (10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. I selected)
Environment was very friendly and easy to use.
No significant activity.
This was the only coding round.
- Q1. Prime time again You have been given two integers ‘DAY_HOURS’ and ‘PARTS’. Where ‘DAY_HOURS’ is the number of hours in a day and a day can be divided into ‘PART...read more View Answers (4)
Telephonic Call Round (1 Question)
Round duration - 10-15 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
Timing- 12:15 p.m.
Environment was very good .
Not any significant activity.
The interviewer was very friendly and talked like friends.
- Q1. DBMS Questions 1) A table was shown to me and I was asked to write a query for displaying unique elements. 2) What is RDBMS ? 3) Difference between MySql & ...read more View Answers (1)
HR Round (1 Question)
Round duration - 20 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
Timing- 12:30 p.m. to 12:45 p.m
Environment was very comfortable.
No other significant activity.
Interviewer was very good and talking very politely & friendly.
- Q1. HR Discussion View Answers (1)
Interview Preparation Tips
Tip 1 : Make sure what you have learnt in DSA you can do it practically by writing codes.
Tip 2 : Must have a hands-on experience in writing SQL commands.
Tip 3 : Do atleast 3-4 projects so that you have an option to explain any one of them if the interviewer asks.
Tip 1 : Write only true data in resume. Don't bluff as you may get caught which will be very embarrassing.
Tip 2 : Have some latest technology related projects in your resume.
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I was interviewed before May 2021.
2 Interview Rounds
Coding Test Round (2 Questions)
Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
It is online round and it was conducted around 11 AM on campus. Difficulty was medium. 2 coding questions were asked. One question is based on arrays(easy) and the other question is based on usage of oops concepts like Inheritance, polymorphism. Everything went smooth.
- Q1. Subarray With Given Sum Given an array ARR of N integers and an integer S. The task is to find whether there exists a subarray(positive length) of the given arr...read more View Answers (4)
- Q2. OOPS Question
Only java was allowed. Parent class was given and asked to write code for child classes and function overloading.
View Answers (2)
Video Call Round (4 Questions)
Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
Round started with self introduction and discussion of project. Everything went fine.
Note: we didn't have hr round due to time constraint. You can expect hr round.
- Q1. Find Duplicate You have been given an integer array/list(ARR) of size N which contains numbers from 0 to (N - 2). Each number is present at least once. That is,...read more View Answers (4)
- Q2. DBMS Questions
Explain the concept of normalisation and types.
View Answers (2) - Q3. DBMS Question
Explain ACID properties
View Answers (2) - Q4. OOPS Question
Explain oops concepts with real life examples.
View Answers (2)
Interview Preparation Tips
Tip 1 : Don't get frustrated if not selected, keep believing yourself.
Tip 2 : Prepare data structures and algorithms well. Practice coding daily. OOPS in any programming language will do. Prefer quality of codes to quantity.
Tip 3 : If possible do a project on full stack development.
Tip 1 : Keep it simple and try to adjust everything in one page. As a fresher it is better if you can have 2 projects in your cv.
Tip 2 : Don't add unnecessary details such as parents details.
Skills evaluated in this interview
I was interviewed before May 2021.
3 Interview Rounds
Telephonic Call Round (2 Questions)
Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
- Q1. Remove Duplicates Given a string S, remove consecutive duplicates from it recursively. Input Format : String S Output Format : Output string Constraints : 1 &...read more View Answers (2)
- Q2. DSA Questions 1. Benefits of Learning Data Structures ? 2. Can you explain the difference between file structure and storage structure? 3. What is a multidimens...read more Add Answer
Face to Face Round (2 Questions)
Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
- Q1. Reverse String You are given a string ‘S’. You are also given ‘M’ integers in an array ‘A’. You perform ‘M’ operations on this string. The operations are given ...read more View Answers (2)
- Q2. DSA and OOPS Questions How can you find the largest or smallest number in an array of integers? What is an AVL Tree? What is the difference between tree and gra...read more Add Answer
HR Round (1 Question)
Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
- Q1. Basic HR Questions Why should we hire you ? How you are fit for this position ? Why you are looking into service based organization ? Tell me ...read more View Answers (1)
Interview Preparation Tips
Tip 1 : Prepare well for resume & confidence for basic part of CS.
Tip 2 : Good knowledge of skills set which mentioned in CV.
Tip 3 : Explain about projects which you have worked earlier & your roles and responsibilities.
Tip 1 : Mentioned all the skills & certificate till date update your resume every 3 month's.
Tip 2 : Proper skills set with project explanation and duration of project which you have worked on
Skills evaluated in this interview
Sankeerthana Vanjari
I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Oct 2024.
4 Interview Rounds
Aptitude Test Round
Cognitive,quatitative,logical
Technical Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me about yor self Add Answer
- Q2. About your project Add Answer
Technical Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Based on the python Add Answer
- Q2. Html which is used for web page View Answers (1)
HR Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Behaviroul questions Add Answer
- Q2. Communication skills Add Answer
Anonymous
I applied via campus placement at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur and was interviewed in Nov 2024.
2 Interview Rounds
Coding Test Round
Three coding questions based on dynamic programming must be answered within three hours.
Technical Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Questions based on Resume and Technical skills Add Answer
- Q2. Deep Knowledge Of SQL , DSA Add Answer
AKANKSHA JAISWAL
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
Coding Test Round
Apt and coding test was in first
Coding Test Round
2 coding questions was ask
One-on-one Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. It was on your resume question Add Answer
- Q2. Hr questions was asked in interview Add Answer
1 Interview Round
One-on-one Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Manual Testing Concepts Add Answer
- Q2. What are Oops Concepts View Answers (1)
I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Nov 2024.
1 Interview Round
Technical Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. This and super difference Add Answer
- Q2. String related coding Add Answer
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