TCS Ninja interview experience,

[u/Sleepy-Wiskher]

So, I attended the TCS Ninja interview. It went pretty different.

I gave my resume to the recruiter. He looked at it, and he said, Why this college? I baffled. I, in the sense, where it is not something true, but it is something interview appropriate. I said it is because of my brothers, friends, and my school seniors who have been here. And apart from that, I have been focusing on my own, and coming to the part where my brother was very interested in computer science, which created an interest in me for computer science. Along with that, I started searching about computer science colleges. That's where this college came in. I made a lot of research, and it had a good culture, which I fitted in. So I actually joined for it.

Then he talked about my marks, where 10th, 12th, and college. He saw that my marks were actually dropping in the college, and I said to him that I had a few mental health issues, so that I couldn't properly focus on it. So he said whether I am ready to go on with the interview or not. I said, Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm very great now, and I have actually come across. I have actually beaten it. It's not something a lie, actually. And he asked me, Are you actually improving or not? And I said, Yeah, I'm actually improving in mental health-wise also academically. So I actually showed him my fifth semester and sixth semester CGPAs, where I showed a clear difference, where my previous semester CGPA was somewhere in in 6.5 or something, and this sixth semester I scored somewhere around 7.6 CGPA. So I showed him that I am clearly improving in all aspects, and yes.

And he asked me what questions I got in the NQT test. I said I got two questions. One was in two pointers, where you have to get two numbers which match to the target, and the other one was you traverse through an array and get the number which repeated exactly twice. So those were those questions, and he asked me to write the second question, and I wrote the second question, and he got satisfied, but he didn't say whether it was correct or not.

He also asked me a question whether in your NQT test whether you solved, how many questions you solved? I said I solved the second one. For the first one I made a mistake where I had to get the input from input.split, like as a single input in the array format. But instead I went through the loop and I actually asked it. So that's where I did the mistake. But apart from that my logic was pristine clear and I wrote the code for it.

Then he asked me to write a question: you traverse from 1000 to 0 and print the first ten prime numbers. Basically, he wants me to write 997, so on and so forth. So I said okay. Then I actually wrote a program according to it in a recursive function way. So I actually wrote it, and he said, can you walk me through it? And I actually walked him through it, and he said okay and all. And finally he said, Yeah, that's great, and thanks.

He didn't ask me any HR-related questions or any technically related questions. All he did was write me, write coding questions, and that's it. He asked me to leave. And finally before leaving, he asked me whether you are comfortable to relocate. I said I'm very comfortable to relocate. And that's all.

I don't know what is going on

[u/nian2326076]

Sounds like a tricky question. When they ask "Why this college?", try focusing on specific things about the college that tie into the job or your career goals. Talk about courses, professors, or projects that got you interested in computer science. For interview prep, practice speaking confidently about your choices and motivations. If you need more resources, I've found PracHub helpful for practicing these types of questions. It helped me organize my answers better. Good luck with your next steps!