Provided by www.YuvaJobs.com - Tesco Placement Papers Sept. 2010 OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally the long wait is over i am i TESCO HSC now........ i was in exile for almost 6months after my final sem results...... i dont want to reveal my name and my college name for some personal reasons, but i would like to tell u that i finished my last round of interviews on A WEDNESDAY A LITTLE ABOUT TESCO tesco is the world,s third largest retailer and provides IT,Business and financial services.headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is the third largest retailer in the world measured by revenues and the second largest measured by profits. It has stores in 14 countries across Asia, Europe and North America and is the grocery market leader in the UK (where it has a market share of around 30%), Malaysia and Thailand. THE PLACEMENT PROCESS TESCO evaluates candidates in 4 rounds, each round is a elimination round 1. written test 2.Technical Interview 3.Managerial Interview 4.HR interview WRITTEN TEST TESCO has a unique kind of aptitude test they do not ask u those regular questions on profit/loss, time and work, speed,ratio.....and so on written test consists 60q which have to be answered in 60 mins with 0.25 negative mark for each wrong ans,, the first 15q would be on Blood relations, direction sense test and finding the next element in the series all the questions were easy, i could solve all 15 next few questions were on the verbal ability they would ask u 4q on Antonyms and synonyms which will be followed by 2 long paragraphs which i felt was a quite tough, infact i could not understand one of the paragraphs next section was the data interpretation test they will give u 2 graphs and 4q on each of them, i was given a linegraph which was very easy to solve but the 2q on Bar graph was very difficult one unique section in the written test that u will find only in TESCo would be the General Knowledge test, i will contain 20q some questions were very easy like which company has the tagline "empowering people" (ans. HCL) but there were some tough questions as well,,, i could answer 12 out of 20q TECHNICAL INTERVIEW i was very fortunate enough for having cleared the written test...... as soon as i entered in the cabin he told me take a seat,,,,,,, and i replied thank u sir ME:GA sir sir: GA sir: could you pls tell me abt yourslf briefly before we move on me: answered ( most of the interviewers start with this ques so be prepared for this ) i have a drastic drop in my academic performance in B.E. when compared to my 10th and 12th so my next ques was to explain this....... so be prepared for ques like this finally he started off with the tech questions 1q: tell me about ur project 2q:what all processors u know 3q: what do u mean by 4/16/32/64 bit microprocessors 4q: what is PCB 5q: he asked me to write and explain a prg in C 6q: few more questions on Basic C 7q:when i was answering the 6q he suddenly asked me "how often do u smoke" (i really do smoke") i was perplexed when he asked me this q but finally made up my mind and told him "yes" and he told me that i like ur frankness 8q: how good are you at Data structures ( i told him that i am from EC background and i have no idea abt DS) 9q: diff b/w c and c++ and wat is the concept of OOPS(brush up on concepts like polymorophism, dataencapsulation, inheritance, abstractionn,classes) 10q: what are the different sorting techniques u know ( i told him bubble/selection/insertion) 11q: he told me to explain bubble sort (he was impressed by my explanation) 12q: what do u know abt tesco 13q: any ques for me 14q: are you ready to work in shifts (i said "yes" but i am damn sure even the person who took my interview will not be ready to work in shifts) finally he told me to wait outside for the next round MANAGERIAL ROUND i was called for the MR round after 30mins i was asked all routine ques like 1.tell me about urself 2.why IT industry 3. i was again asked to exp drop in my % 4. wat is ur goal , ambition 5. why tesco 6. wat is ur achievement HR ROUND i was called for the final round at 2pm a person in his early 40,s took my interview it was more or less like the MR round and finally results were announced i was in the list of selected candidates.......................... i am very glad that i have made it to tesco i hope its a grt company to build up my career,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i would like to thank my parents for the support ........ and one of my classmate for his valuable advice so guys never lose hope "every dog has a day" .........try and try and try until u succeed was my motto which helped me a lot all the best....... hope my experience would help you see you at TESCO HSC Provided by www.YuvaJobs.com - Tesco Placement Papers Sept. 2010