Smartwork tricks to clear TCS Digital Capability Assessment Interview
Hey Hi TCSers guys,
First of all thanks to you for reading my First Blog and giving me a huge response in terms of comments, claps, asking questions .
One more thanks for keep my blog on top visited sites in the google search. I hope I clear your doubts and you all do very well in Digital Capability Assessment (DCA). Most of the guys commented, linkedIn message, emailed me and insist me to write other blog for “How to prepare for interview?”.
So Guys on behalf of your request, I wrote second blog “How to prepare for DCA Interview”.
Following are some of the common questions may be asked in the interview.
(Note: In the blog I have shared some of my interview experience and questions that I had asked in my DCA interview. I answered to the interviewer according to my job profile and work experience that I have.)
1. Prerequisite to be complete before going for interview.
2. Tell me about your current project? What is your role in the project? Responsibilities that you have and how do u handle them?
3. Where do you see yourself in the next 2 years?
4. What is the advantage if you will be a TCS Digital Cadre?
5. Do you remember the code that you wrote in DCA ? Is any other way to do it? Have you participated in any other coding contest?
6. What will you do if you won’t clear DCA?
1. Prerequisite to be complete before going for interview.
Update your personal online profile and make it 100% complete.(TCS Digital Profile and LinkedIn account is must.)
A. Profiles comes under TCS account(Accessible only to TCSers)
i. Digital Profile (clearly mention your achievements, engagements, other roles and make the profile 100% complete)
ii. Self-Declare Competency
iii. Xcelerate Profile
iv. Knome account .
B. Other Public profiles
i. LinkedIn Profile-(Resume-2pages, add links of your personal websites, certificates)
ii. Github/Gitlab(any other open source platform)
(Upload your projects, findings, research paper)
iii. Coding Platform account (Codechef, Codeforces, LeetCode, GeeksForGeeks, etc.)
iv. Mention your online profile account links (Youtube, blogs, Pinterest, stackoverflow)
v. Mention your hobbies.
In Simple words: Interviewer must realize that you are not only speaking but you are practically experiencing, working in both Tech and Non-tech area and online profile account links are the proof for that)
2.Tell me about your current project? What is your role in the project? Responsibilities that you have and how do u handle them?
I think associates who are eligible for this assessment may have few months of experience or some may have experience upto 3 years. Answer of this question is according to the your work experience and the projects in which you have worked.
First of all tell them about your project ,client , project related to which domain , what is the aim that you have to achieve in the project, what you are learning form the project, what is your role in the project. How you handle the situation if you face difficulties.(Always keep in mind that you are working in a team so never say that I am the only person doing this and that in the project).
If you explain a real life example of difficult situation that you face and how you handle that situation , this will be more impactful for interviewer.(Be always true with the interviewer, even-though you are doing a very small task in this big project but let him know that you are learning from the task that you have assign.
My Interview Experience: At the time of my DCA interview , I had only 8 month of job experience. For interviewer I was a like a fresher associate. He has asked me about my ILP trainings and my college projects.
While explaining project don’t go directly with the technology , languages ,tools that you are using.
First tell them that it was a group project . We all worked in a team .Tell them how idea comes in your mind to do this project. What were the disadvantages/difficulties previously was and by doing this project we had achieved something which is helpful to others. Tell them how your project is efficient in small organization and in big organization , how you achieved the project in cheaper cost.
Lastly tell them the technologies ,tools, languages that you have used.
(Obviously everything is available on the google but try to explain them how you think out-of-box, co-relate your real life practical examples , what are the difficulties / disadvantages that you are facing and for that how you are using your knowledge or google while doing projects.)
3. Where do you see yourself in the next 2 years?
According to your job profile you can answer this question. But remember tell your past experience /sacrifice that you have done to achieve this position. Explain your past, present and future situation
Past : What you did in your past life .If u have some proofs like online links then tell interviewer that you can google me/ youtube me you can see my posts/blogs/projects there.
Present:
1.What you are doing now-a-days , apart from project work what you are learning .(Tech and non-tech in both areas)
2. From where your are leaning (ievolve, frescoplay, udemy, LinkedIn Learning , coursera)
3.If you are doing any internal projects (Upload that projects on open source platform )
4. If you are doing coding (Tell them the coding platform ).
Inshort realize the interviewer: to change your future you are continuously learning and you have the statistics or proofs of your learning on your online accounts.
4. What is the advantage if you will be a TCS Digital Cadre?
Apart from the job designation and compensation benefits I will get chance to work in new technologies project such as AI,ML, image processing, Robotics, IOT etc.
My interview experience: Actually I am from TCS Pune location. At that time I never get chance to work in TCS Digital /TCS Digitate/Ignio product projects because I was Assistant System Engineer Grade –Y (ASE) so RMG refused me.
If I would be TCS Digital Cadre I will asked RMG please assign me a project according to my knowledge and intelligence level.
In short-you must know what will you achieve after gaining tag of “TCS Digital Cadre”, You must be aware about your future, in which good projects do you want to work .
5. Do you remember the code that you wrote in DCA is any other way to do it? Have you participated in any other coding contest?
Yes I remember the code .I can do the same code in different way as well.I can reduce the code complexity by using Data structures like queue, stack, hash-map.
Past experience: During my college days I used take part in hackathons. I had participated in “Codevita “ challenge organized by TCS.
Present experience: Now-a-days I am participating in Global hackathons on “Fresco-play “ platform
In Short realize interviewer that you are aware and using learning platforms provided by TCS . Apart from the office work you are actively keep learning new concepts.
6. What will you do if you won’t clear DCA?
i. First of all I will find root cause of ‘Why I won’t clear DCA?’. I will improve myself in those area by continuously learning and practicing.
ii. TCS is conducting DCA assessment two times in a year , so I will give the same assessment in the month of july-august.
iii.“Elevate Wings 1” this is another carrier growth platform.I will give “Elevate Wings 1 Assessment”
iv. Currently I am completing the frescoplay courses and ievolve courses to achieve competencies in some specific technology.
In simple words: Realize interviewer that from your failures you are learning something and you are actively working to overcome your failure points.
So Guys,
With interviewer be always real and true, speak politely and always try to make every impossible thing to possible.
“Always BE you, the world will adjust.”
Note:
- While answering to the interviewer keep your job role and work experience in your mind and answer according to that
- Non TCSers guys may not understand some terms because that terms or words or accounts related to TCS associates only.
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