TATA ELXSI·Software Engineer

TATA ELXSI Software Engineer interview experience

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ThiruvananthapuramPosted Oct 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview felt less like a pure coding check and more like a communications and project relevance test.

I was asked questions tied to a specific college project—why I chose the technologies I used, what alternatives existed, and how I thought through the reasoning behind those choices.

Alongside the project discussion, I also got general communication questions. The combination made the round feel different from the typical “write code and answer DBMS” style—most of my time went into explaining trade-offs and my thought process.

It was difficult in the sense that clarity and relevance mattered more than recalling a list of facts. I walked out realizing I’d been evaluated on how convincingly I

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