TCS Digital Interview Experience
TCS Digital Interview Experience
DATE - 4 April 2026
Location- Bhopal
I had a three-panel interview. One panelist was just sitting on the sidelines and never uttered a word from his mouth.
First Panel :-
The interviewer asked what programming languages I know. Then he gave a scenario-based problem: there are around 100 real-time Windows and Linux servers, and they should automatically shut down at Saturday 00:00 and start again at Monday 00:00. He gave me about 15 minutes to solve it.
I thought about it for around 5 minutes but I had never worked on such problems before, so I was not able to write any code or approach. I told the interviewer that I don’t have knowledge about this as I have never dealt with such tasks. He then asked if I could write the code in C/C++, and I said no sir.
After that, he asked me some unrelated questions like what I had for breakfast and what flavours I liked, and also asked about water. Then he said he was done from his side.
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Second Panel :-
The second interviewer saw that my profile is Data Science related and started asking questions.
* Difference between Deep Learning and NLP → I started answering that Deep Learning deals with images and videos like I have done in my project, and NLP works on text like my project. The interviewer cut me in between and asked if NLP can work on images and videos. I confidently said no sir. Then he asked if it works on text, and I said yes sir, it works on text.
* Asked about Linux → I said I don’t have knowledge about Linux but I had installed it once on my friend’s system using GitHub instructions.
* Asked if I know any Linux commands → I said I don’t recall any commands.
* Asked about Computer Networks → I said I don’t have much knowledge, only basic concepts from my course.
* Asked to recall anything from Computer Networks → I said I studied about some layers.
* Asked which layers → I said data control layer and transport layer.
* Asked what is transport layer → I said it is the layer that controls the packets of data sent and received.
* Asked about adapters → I said I don’t know.
* Then he specified WiFi adapters → I said they are used to send data wirelessly.
* Asked about LAN → I said it stands for Local Area Network and is used to share data in a wired way.
* Asked difference between TCP and UDP → I first said Transfer Control Protocol but could not explain further. Then he asked for full form and difference, and I said I don’t know.
The interviewer was asking questions very quickly and was not giving much time to think.
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Overall Experience:
The interview experience was bad as most of the interview questions were from areas like servers, Linux, and computer networks. No Questions were asked from my resume and only one question was asked from my Data Science domain. I answered honestly based on what I knew, but many questions were from areas I had not worked on before. Interviewer were not harsh but friendly upto a point. My panel was only like that among all the other panels, which asked about areas not in resume. Almost similar thing happened with me for last year TCS digital interview. I think that my chances of NQT are over and if someone has had similar experience and got OL do let me know as it boosts a little moral.