TCS iON Software Development Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Reasoning coding technical questions etc

Q1. Project discussion introduction self introduction etc
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Q2. Project information and etc how you know about programming language
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Q1. Java technical questions
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Q1. Project related questions
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Q1. Strengths, Weakness, formalities, describe yourself.
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Mcq + Data structures questions

Q1. 
Maximum Sum Subarray Problem Statement
Given an array of integers, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray within the array.
Example:
Input:
array = [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86]
Output:
137
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Ans. Brute Force Approach
1. Create a nested loop. The outer loop will go from i = 0 to i = n - k. This will cover the starting indices of all k-subarrays
2. The inner loop will go from j = i to j = i + k - 1. This will cover all the elements of the k-subarray starting from index i
3. Keep track of the maximum element in the inner loop and print it.
Space Complexity: O(1)Explanation:
O(1) because the extra space being used (looping vari...read more
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Round duration - 70 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Standard System Design round

Q1. Design a Doctor Appointment System and provide some test cases.
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Tip 1 : Implement using OOPs 
Tip 2 : Try to tell your approach to the interviewer as much as you can side by side
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Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Interview of DSA + OOPS + Databse(SQL query) + Operating System

Q1. 
Left View of a Binary Tree
Given a binary tree, your task is to print the left view of the tree. The left view of a binary tree contains the nodes visible when the tree is viewed from the left side.
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Ans. Recursive Approach
This problem can be solved through recursion.We will maintain max_level variable which will keep track of maxLevel and will pass current level in recursion as argument. Whenever we see a node whose current level is more than maxLevel then we will print that node as that will be first node for that current level. Also update maxLevel with current level.
Space Complexity: O(n)Explanation:
O(N), where ‘N’...read more
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Q2. What is the difference between CHAR and VARCHAR2 data types in SQL?
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Q3. What are the various types of constructors in C++?
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Q4. What is the difference between overloading and overriding?
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Hr round - normal hr questions + situational 

Thoughtworks community discussion

Q1. Why should we hire you?
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Tip 1 : Read all Thoughtworks community page and be honest

Tip 2 : Be open-minded and answer whatever you are thinking, in these rounds I feel it is important to have opinion.

Tip 3 : The cross-questioning can go intense sometimes, think before you speak.
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Q1. What is the difference between List and Tuple?
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List is mutable and Tuple is immutable in Python.
• List can be modified after creation while Tuple cannot be modified.

• List uses square brackets [] while Tuple uses parentheses ().

• List is used for homogenous data while Tuple is used for heterogenous data.

• List is slower than Tuple in terms of performance.

• Example of List: [1, 2, 3] and Example of Tuple: (1, 'hello', 3.14)
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Q2. What is __init__ ? Follow up question why is __ (double underscore) used?
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Q3. A SQL query based on group by and order by DESC LIMIT 1 in order to fetch highest row of a group in a dataset given by panelist.
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Q4. A simple query on SQL using group by and aggregate function.
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Q5. Panelist asked about my previous work experience and projects I worked upon earlier and the technologies used.
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Q6. Question on how do we create table using SQL Alchemy in Flask (since I had used Python Flask in one of my previous projects and had highlighted it pretty well on my resume).
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Q7. How is memory managed in Python?
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Python uses automatic memory management through garbage collection.
• Python uses reference counting to keep track of memory usage.

• When an object's reference count drops to zero, it is deleted.

• Python also uses a garbage collector to handle circular references.

• Memory allocation is handled by the Python memory manager.

• Python provides tools like the 'gc' module for managing memory usage.
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Q1. Question on List operation.
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Q2. Do you know numpy pandas?
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Yes, numpy and pandas are Python libraries used for data analysis and manipulation.
• NumPy is used for numerical operations on arrays and matrices.

• Pandas is used for data manipulation and analysis, providing data structures like DataFrame.

• Both libraries are commonly used in data science and machine learning.

• Example: import numpy as np; import pandas as pd;
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Q3. A question to count number of times a letter occurs in a sentence and then also find the maximum occurring letter.
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Q4. Difference between generator and iterator?
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Generator generates values on the fly while iterator iterates over a collection of values.
• Generator is a function that returns an iterator.

• Generators use 'yield' keyword to return values one at a time.

• Iterators are objects that implement the 'next' method to return the next value in a collection.

• Iterators can be created from arrays, strings, maps, sets, etc.

• Generators are useful for generating large sequences of values...read more
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Q5. What is the selling point about you why should we consider you over other candidate?
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Q1. Why are you looking for a change?
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Q2. What are your salary expectations?
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Q1. Question on java and microservies
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Q1. Current and expected CTC
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Q1. About spark and hive,hdfs
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Q1. Spark and hive ,hdfs
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Project explanation

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