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TCS System Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Freshers

Updated 8 Dec 2024

Top TCS System Engineer Interview Questions and Answers for Freshers

  • Q1. Who Won the Election??? Elections are going on, and there are two candidates A and B, contesting with each other. There is a queue of voters and in this queue, some of th ...read more
  • Q2. Mirror String You are given a string S containing only uppercase English characters. Find whether S is the same as its reflection in the mirror. For Example, S = “AMAMA” ...read more
  • Q3. Cycle Detection in a Singly Linked List You have given a Singly Linked List of integers, determine if it forms a cycle or not. A cycle occurs when a node's next points ba ...read more
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158 TCS System Engineer Interview Experiences for Freshers

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System Engineer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 2 Jul 2022

I was interviewed in Jan 2022.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Differences between Object Oriented and Procedure oriented programming languages

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for TCS System Engineer interview:
  • Data Structures
  • Algorithms
  • Programming
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Learn any one programming language
Learn basic data structures and algorithms
Stay confident and answer even if you don't know the answer exactly

System Engineer Interview Questions

user image a r anantha krishnan

posted on 22 May 2023

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before May 2022.

6 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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2

Aptitude Test Round

Comprehensive, quantitative, logic

3

Coding Test Round

Two coding questions any language

4

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Be prepared based on your skill set
5

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. You'll get basic questions from internet
6

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Be who you are , speak what you know

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System Engineer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 5 Dec 2022

I applied via campus placement at SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai and was interviewed before Dec 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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2

Aptitude Test Round

1st round was aptitude test here the questions were mostly tricky than difficult. You solve more than 75% questions if you just basically brush up your concepts.

3

Coding Test Round

The coding was quite difficult because the recruitment was of digital. For ninja role the coding questions are quite easy. But for digital one you have to understand data structure and little knowledge of DBMS.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just learn any advanced technology like Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence or any other technology and explain that technology with any project.

System Engineer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 14 May 2022

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Nov 2021.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Basic to moderate leve

2

Coding Test Round

Basic to moderate

3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic java, html, css, oracle,
4

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself, project related

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Add your skill on resume and be honest at the time of interview.

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System Engineer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 8 Aug 2023

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Aug 2022.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Aptitude with 2 coding challenge

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic question from preferred technology
3

Coding Test Round

Managerial Round- Be humble nd postive

4

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. What you did in your education gap

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't join TCS as fresher

System Engineer Interview Questions

user image PrepInsta

posted on 29 Nov 2021

I applied via PrepInsta and was interviewed in Mar 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

First Round (Assessments) Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 165 minutes
First round consisted of 30 quantitative questions, 30 verbal questions, 30 logical reasoning, 10 c output questions and 2 coding questions. If you clear the 1st round then you will get a chance for a technical and HR interview. In my case I have cleared the 1st round and after 1 month I got mail from TCS for a technical and HR interview.

  • Q1. One of the coding questions was : A parking lot in a mall has an RxC number of parking spaces. Each parking space will either be empty(0) or full(1). The status...read more
  • Q2. Convert Binary to Octal
2

Technical Round (10 Questions)

Round duration - 20 minutes
This is basically an Interview round which is to know about the technical skills of the candidate. He asked a lot of questions on programming.

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself?
  • Q2. Show me your ID card?
  • Q3. Can you show your project?
  • Q4. Which subject is your favorite?
  • Q5. Can you explain encapsulation?
  • Q6. Write code for polymorphism?
  • Q7. What is normalization?
  • Q8. Types of joins?
  • Q9. Primary key can be a null or not?
  • Q10. File handle in c?
3

Online Interview Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 20 to 25mins
This round was conducted two days after the Technical round. It was a short round of 15 minutes and the questions were limited to my academics and whether I will relocate.
HR asked me all about my resume?

  • Q1. How many projects have you done?
  • Q2. What was your role in your group project?

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundAt the time of the interview, I had 0 Years (fresher) of experience. My academic qualification is B.Tech from Malla Reddy College Of Engineering For Women.TCS interview preparation:Resources to prepare for this interview - I am a member of PrepInsta’s Discord community, and from there I got a free subscription for Prime. I followed their TCS Preparation and TCS Interview Preparation course.Tips for other job seekers - Having a nice and proper setting with good lighting and no background noise will show the interviewer how professional you are and create a good first impressionFinal outcome of the interviewSelected

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System Engineer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 16 Apr 2023

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Easy
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Apr 2022.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Properly align and format text in your resume. A recruiter will have to spend more time reading poorly aligned text, leading to high chances of rejection.
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2

Aptitude Test Round

Just basics maths and English

3

Technical Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. Basics language questions
  • Q2. Tell me about yourself
  • Q3. What programming language do you know. According to that they will ask questions.

System Engineer interview

user image QUANT MASTERS

posted on 16 Nov 2021

System Engineer Interview Questions

user image Arpit Bansal

posted on 17 Jan 2022

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jul 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident prepare c basic.

System Engineer Interview Questions

user image Pratyush Kumar

posted on 11 Nov 2021

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Oct 2021.

1 Interview Round

Interview Questions

  • Q1. I am from the computer science branch yesterday I have had gave the interview of TCS. I had answered all the theory parts which they asked me. then they said me...read more Add Answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Very nice interact with HR

TCS Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in TCS System Engineer interview for freshers?
TCS interview process for freshers usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the TCS interview process for freshers are Technical, Aptitude Test and HR.
What are the top questions asked in TCS System Engineer interview for freshers?

Some of the top questions asked at the TCS System Engineer interview for freshers -

  1. What is the difference b/w Procedural Programming and OOP Concept? What are the...read more
  2. Explain Difference b/w Constructor and Method also write the code which can des...read more
  3. Model an upsetting(metal forming) operation. Explain the process parameters and...read more
How long is the TCS System Engineer interview process?

The duration of TCS System Engineer interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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