Tata Consultancy Services did not impress me. Their recruiters were late to Skype interviews and contacted me from a different time zone without tell me. I contacted Tata from an email regarding an online career fair which was the equivalent of a chat room. I submitted the required documents and was eventually contacted by email. I asked for 1 pm interview but was asked at 11 am to interview because it happens that the recruiter lives on the East Coast and I lived on the West Coast. There was an initial phone screen with Skype. This was full of personal questions and project questions: Ex: What was your most challenging question and what did you learn from it? STAR type questions. Very relaxed and no pressure if you had interviews before. The next interview was a technical phone interview. The interviewer asked me very simple data structures and algorithms questions. This was done with a web app that allowed me to view the questions/information associated with the question. I remember there being questions on tree traversal which I easily got thanks to my data structures class.

The interview started with a brief self-introduction, followed by questions about my coding experience, including how many coding problems I had solved on the NQT platform. The interviewer then asked me to write a sorting algorithm on paper, explain its logic, and modify it to sort the array in descending order. After that, the discussion moved to C programming concepts such as `malloc()` and `calloc()`, including their differences and use cases. The interviewer also asked fundamental DBMS questions and SQL queries, including writing a query to find the second-highest salary from an Employee table. Later, I was asked to explain the projects mentioned in my resume, focusing on the technologies used, my contributions, challenges faced, and how I solved them. The interview concluded with several situation-based questions to assess my problem-solving ability, communication skills, and approach to handling real-world workplace scenarios.