TESCO Campus Placement Process & Interview Experience 2015
Company overview:
Tesco is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom.
Tesco is the first major international retailer to have a fully-owned support centre in India. We are dedicated to make the Tesco experience better for over 60 million customers worldwide, simpler for over 4,72,000 employees and achieve cost -efficiencies.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Aggregate of 70% in percentage(7.75 in CGPA ) in Engineering
- Candidates shlould not have any standing arrears and should come with Updated Degree Certificates.
- They will consider students from these branches only -CSE,ECE,IT,EE
- Salary Offered: 7.25 laks + 1 lakh of joining bonus.
Number of rounds in Selection Process:
- Aptitude Test Round
- Coding Round
- Technical interview + HR Round
Details of Rounds:
Written Test
Round One : 1st round consists of quantitative aptitude. difficulty level easy but time consuming. The questions can be found on Indiabix Website also.
It consists of 45 mins for 40 questions with 1 marks each and there was no negative marking. Few people got eliminated after first round.
a)Quant : Quantitative Aptitude Section mainly consists questions on Problems on Ages, Percentages, Trains, Boats, Pipes, Ratio and Proportions, Time and Work; Speed,Time and Distance;
b)LR : Logical reasoning questions were time consuming and difficult, try to avoid them if you can score high without them.
Round Two : Coding Round
In the coding round all students got different questions.
Time : 45 mins 7 questions.
5 mcqs input output questions (5 x 2= 10) and two coding questions (15 x 2 = 30) – 15 marks for lengthy coding questions.
MCQ 1:
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf(“%ld %ld %ld\n”,sizeof(‘1’), sizeof(“1”), sizeof(1));
return;
}
//output 4 2 4
MCQ 2:
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int arr[10];
printf(“%d”, *arr+1-*arr+3);
return;
}
//output 4
MCQ 3:
Which is not an infinite loop
a. int i=0; while(1){i++;}
b. for( ; ; )
c. int true = 0; while(true) { //code}
Read: Campus Interview Experience, Placement Questions and College Projects.
Few of the CODING Questions are :
Que 1 : Given an integer n (1<=n<=1000000) find the nth prime number
like if n = 1 , output = 2
if n = 2, output = 3
Que 2 : There are n straight lines, they are placed on a plane such that no two lines are parallel to each other and no three lines intersect at same point. find the maximum number of area that can be obtained from n lines.
like n = 2 output = 4 , n = 3 output = 7.
Que 3 : Find the gcd (greatest common divisor) of two numbers.
eg: gcd(15,10) = 5
Que 4 : In a given array find and print the duplicate elements.
eg: if array[10] = {1,2,4,2,5,6,3,4,2,9} output : 2,4
Que 5 :Given A= 0 B = 1, C = A+B, D= B+C , find the sum obtained by passing a string.
eg: string passed CAB, output = 2
Round Three : Technical interview + HR round.
Coding questions were really simple but time consuming. one need to be really fast to solve them .
Third Round will be Tech and HR interiew round so be prepared.
References:
- K & R Programming Language
- C++ complete reference
- DBMS, Navathe, refer any good book of Operating System
- R S Aggarwal Quantitative aptitude, Logical reasoning, Verbal and Non-Verbal
Suggestions to juniors:
- Be cool during interview process
- Be positive while answering
- They concentrate more on Basics in DBMS, OS and Networking
- Don’t make any syntactical or logical errors in programs
About Company :
Tesco PLC (stylised as TESCO) is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. It is the third largest retailer in the world measured by profits and second-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues.
Website: http://www.tesco.com/
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