God has been kind to me so far....
I'm 2026 grad tier 69 . Gave nqt on 3 rd April morning.
Numerical apti was fearcefull. Only able to solve 5 rest all c. English was formality Reasoning was on easy- moderate side Adv reasoning easy
Overall I was confident that even though i didn't attempt much I was sure others would also have underperformed
Coding
First qs:
given distance(km)and time(hr )find speed(m/s)
Did within 5 min (7/7)
Second qs : Kadane.
given an array find max subarray sum also print the
subarray range
Able to do it at last moment (7/7)
Got survey mail on 14 April mentioning prime role interview Next day got appn form to fill On 21 eve got interview mail for23 rd April tcs noida sector 157 11:30 slot
Reached center early( 11 am ) and found that there were only prime candidates. Interview were going very good. It wasn't like formality at all. Some student told me tr was asking graph,dp and tree.
Found 2 chill guys from abes.Revised basic graph and dp With them.
My turn came at 3pm I was drained and hungry at same time. Went in and there were three people tr(m) mr(f) hr(f)
Tr :: Asked for my introduction. Fumbled a bit but eventually gave
He looked at my resume and asked about oops Dude was somehow obsessed with oops he literally asked me everything,, oops class object 4 pillar with real life example overloading vs overriding friend function virtual and pure virtual function. Explain a real life problem that oops solve . Explained everything as I prepared it
No sql asked
Then asked about deadlock. Ways to prevent deadlock. Bankers algo and safety algo. Safe vs unsafe state in deadlock. Explained everything
Then he asked me what's my favorite data structure. I said array and map.
Then gave me a coding qs. The dude asked me a weird qs He asked me tell me 5 quality u would look in ur wife. I told him some which got hr and mr started laughing He drew a 2 d matrix and filled it with 0 1
Dsa qs : given a 2 d matrix each block represent a rishta for u. It is 1 if that rishta matches atleast one quality I mentioned. And 0 if none matches. A rishta Is ideal for me if It is 1and also up down left right of that block is also 1
01100
111̲10
01100
I need to find all possible rishtas that are ideal for me and if multiple such ans give one that is closest from (0,0) still if a tie give the one with more diagonal ones
I wrote the bfs psuedo code interview asked boundary condition I explained. Took 3-4 min and wrote the whole optimised bfs. He asked me it's complexity. I told him He asked me if it's correct I replied yes. First he seemed confused but took him a while to realise that my logic was correct
Then came Mr
Straight way asked smart pointer in c++ I said don't know,shallow copy vs deep copy that i was able to explain. asked me u filled c++ and did project in mern but we work in java how would u handle that. Asked about project asked midlleware http methods api etc. I explained everything. She was a nice lady. Asked me some behavioiral qs like what would u choose btw loyalty and sucess
Hr
It was a formality lasted for only 20 s ig. She asked those typical hr qs.
And that's it
Got doc verification on 5 th may
And digital offer letter on 7 th may
I am a full time gate aspirant. So far God has been kind to me