TCS Prime Interview Experience – One of the Worst Hiring Experiences I’ve Had
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First of all, I received the interview mail at around 5 PM, and fortunately I checked it by 7 PM. My interview was scheduled for the very next day at 8:30 AM, while the interview center was almost 8 hours away from my location. I had to travel the entire night just to make it on time.
After reaching there, I quickly changed my clothes and directly went for the interview. My first technical round went really well — I answered around 90% of the questions confidently and even solved the coding problem on array normalization that was given to me.
Later, during the managerial round, I noticed on my assessment sheet that I had been selected for the Digital role. Naturally, I felt happy and relieved after all the effort.
But then suddenly, another interviewer from a different panel came in, discussed something internally, and they decided to take one more technical round. This time, the depth and difficulty level of the questions were increased significantly. Later, I found out that my role had been downgraded from Prime/Digital to Ninja.
The most disappointing part is that this didn’t happen only with me — the same thing happened with multiple students who had cleared the Prime criteria. It honestly felt like they never intended to hire for Prime or even Digital roles in the first place.
If students are clearing the exam with top scores and still being downgraded after multiple rounds, then what is the point of conducting these exams and making students go through so much stress, travel, and effort?
TCS seriously needs to take note of such experiences because this process was extremely disappointing and unfair for many candidates.