Tata Consultancy Services (North America) Software Engineer interview experience

The session opened with a brief introduction and then jumped straight into two DSA problems with a strict time limit—one was a subsequence sum style task, and the other involved implementing merge sort.

What stood out was how quickly the interview became about execution. I didn’t get long detours into resume background; instead, they pushed me to work through the algorithmic ideas directly. The overall difficulty felt high compared to what I’d expected from a resume-based process, and I spent most of the time focused on getting the logic right under time pressure.

I didn’t receive an offer,