TCS·Systems Engineer

TCS Systems Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

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HyderābādPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through the Prime interview as part of a campus drive, and the structure felt like a combination of NQT follow-up and panel selection.

They asked about SDLC, an SQL query, and a coding question that connected back to the NQT-style evaluation. I also had to answer why I was interested in IT, even though my background wasn’t directly in that field.

After that round, I felt like the outcome depended on a panel-based selection process, where only a limited number of Prime candidates moved forward from each panel. Eventually, I received a Ninja offer instead of Prime.

What surprised me was how much the decision felt constrained by who else was selected around the same time. I left knowing I’d performed adequately on the

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