I had appeared for the TCS NQT for Priority Institution in Jan, 2024. For our college it was a pool campus where almost 1000 students participated.
Exam Pattern - 190 mins
- Foundation Section - Numerical, Verbal and Reasoning
- Advanced Section - Advanced Quant and Reasoing, Coding
I solved both the coding problems in pretty quick time and performed pretty good in aptitude too. As a result I got shortlisted for Prime. Many of my friends who solved around 1.5 codes got shortlisted for digital, and who solved only 1 code, they got call for ninja. Take coding seriously! As many of friends who are better than me in aptitude but were not able to solve a single code were not even called for Ninja!
I was called for interview at thier office, after around 20 days from my NQT.
I had only 1 round of interview where there were 3 different panelists, Manager, Technical and HR. They took my interview simultaneously.
For technical round, I was mostly grilled with in depth questions from Java (Yes! I had Java in my Resume). After a pretty in depth discussion on Java, They started asking questions from Operating Systems, Linux and Computer Networks. As I had a pretty good rank in TCS Codevita (Under 500) so they were pretty impressed with that. But still they asked me to solve two LeetCode Medium Coding problems on paper. I solved both of them quite easily. After that thhey asked pretty general HR type questions, which can be easliy found on internet.
After around 2 weeks, they announced that I got selected for the Prime Role! And the fact is, from our college out of 400 students who applied for the NQT, they only seletcted 5 guys for prime interview and 2 of us got the prime offer! So its not that easy!
Few Tips - Practice good amount of coding, as many of my friends got LeetCode Hard problems as well. You should have in depth knowledge of OS, CN, DBMS, OOPs, Linux, Cloud and Cybersecurity. If you are well versed with Java/Python then its a plus point for you. Whatever you are writing in your resume, please make sure that you know each and everything of those topics! And after that do some research about the company as well!
That's all! Best of luck if you are sitting for interview for TCS!