Placements 2008

Know about Infosys....

2008-05-30T06:22:00.000-07:00

Infosys Technologies Limited (BSE: 500209, NASDAQ: INFY) is a multinational information technology services company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It is one of India's largest IT companies with over 88,601 professionals (as of December 31, 2007), nine development centers in India and over 30 offices worldwide. Its annual revenues for the fiscal year 2007-2008 exceeded US$4 billion with a market capitalization of over US$30 billion.

Infosys Technologies Limited

Type	Public NASDAQ: INFY BSE: 500209
Founded	July 2, 1981
Headquarters	Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore, India
Key people	N. R. Narayana Murthy (Co-founder, Non Executive Chairman and Chief Mentor) Nandan Nilekani (Co-founder and Co-Chairman) Kris Gopalakrishnan (Co-founder, CEO and MD) S. D. Shibulal (Co-founder and COO)
Industry	Software services
Products	Finacle (a universal banking product)
Services	Information technology services and solutions
Revenue	▲ Rs. 16,692 crore ($4.18 billion) (FY 2007-08)
Net income	▲ Rs. 4,470 crore ($1.11 billion) (FY 2007-08)
Employees	91,187 (As on 31 March, 2008)^[1]
Subsidiaries	Infosys BPO Limited (formerly Progeon) Infosys Technologies (Australia) Pty. Limited Infosys Consulting, Inc. Infosys Technologies (China) Company Limited Infosys Technologies S. de R. L. de C. V. (Mexico)
Website	www.infosys.com

History

"Infosys Technologies Limited" was founded on July 2, 1981 in Pune by N. R. Narayana Murthy and six others: Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora,^[2] with Raghavan officially being the first employee of the company. Murthy started the company by borrowing INR 10,000 from his wife Sudha Murthy. The company was incorporated as "Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd.", with Raghavan's house in Matunga, north-central Mumbai as the registered office.

In 2001 it was rated "Best Employer in India" by Business Today,.^[3] Infosys won the Global MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises) award, for the years 2003, 2004 and 2005, being the only Indian company to win this award and is inducted into the Global Hall of Fame for the same.^[4]^[5]

Timeline

1981: Founded.
1983: Moved its headquarters to Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka
1987: First international office in the United States in Fremont, California, now its US headquarters.
1987: Got its first foreign client, Data Basics Corporation from the United States
1993: Became a public limited company in India with an initial public offering of Rs. 13 crores.
1996: First office in Europe in Milton Keynes, UK
1997: Office in Toronto, Canada
1999: Listed on Nasdaq.
1999: Attained a SEI-CMM Level 5 ranking and became the first Indian company to be listed on NASDAQ
2000: Opened offices in France and Hong Kong
2001: Opened offices in United Arab Emirates and Argentina
2002: Opened new offices in Netherlands, Singapore and Switzerland.
2002: Business World named Infosys "India's Most Respected Company".^[6]
2002: Started Progeon, its BPO (business process outsourcing) subsidiary^[7]
2003: Acquired 100% equity of Expert Information Services Pty Limited, Australia (Expert) and changed the name to Infosys Australia Pty Limited.
2004: Set up Infosys Consulting Inc., U.S. consulting subsidiary in California, U.S.
2006: Became the first Indian company to ring the NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell
2006: August 20, N. R. Narayana Murthy retired from his position as the executive chairman^[8]
2006: Acquired the 23% stake Citibank had in its BPO offshoot Progeon, making it a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys and changed the name to Infosys BPO Ltd.^[9]
2006: December, became the first Indian company to make it to Nasdaq-100^[10]
2007: April 13, Nandan Nilekani stepped down as CEO and made way for Kris Gopalakrishnan to occupy his chair effective June 2007
2007: July 25, Infosys bags multi-million dollar outsourcing contract with Royal Philips Electronics in the area Finance & Accounting services strengthening its European operations.
2007: September, Infosys establishes a wholly-owned Latin American subsidiary, Infosys Technologies S. de R. L. de C. V., and opens its first software development center in Latin America in the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
2007: April, Annual revenues exceed USD 3 billion for the first time.^[11]
2008: April, Annual revenues exceed USD 4 billion.

During the 14-year period from 1993 to 2007, the issue price of an Infosys share has increased three thousandfold. This is excluding the dividends that the company has paid out over this duration.

Key industries

Infosys HQ in Bangalore.

Infosys serves various industries through its Industrial Business Units (IBU), such as:

Banking & Capital Markets (BCM)
Communications Media and Entertainment (CME)
Aerospace & Avionics
Energy, Utilities and Services (EUS)
Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences (IHL)
Manufacturing (MFG)
Retail, Consumer Product Goods and Logistics (RETL)
New Growth Engines (NGE)
India Business Unit (IND)

In addition to these, there are Horizontal Business Units (HBUs)

Consulting
Enterprise Solutions (ES)
Infrastructure Management Services (IMS)
Product Engineering and Validation Services (PEVS)
Systems Integration (SI)

Initiatives

In 1996, Infosys created the Infosys Foundation in the state of Karnataka, operating in the areas of health care, social rehabilitation and rural uplift, education, arts and culture. Since then, this foundation has spread to the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Punjab. The Infosys Foundation is headed by Mrs. Sudha Murthy, wife of Chairman Narayana Murthy.

Since 2004, Infosys has embarked on a series of initiatives to consolidate and formalize its academic relationships worldwide under the umbrella of a program called AcE - Academic Entente. Through case study writing, participation in academic conferences and university events, research collaborations, hosting study trips to Infosys Development Centers and running the InStep Global Internship Program, the company communicates with important stakeholders in the academia.

Infosys' Global Internship Program, known as InStep, is one of the key components of the Academic Entente initiative. It offers live projects to interns from the universities around the world. InStep recruits undergraduate, graduate and PhD students from business, technology, and liberal arts universities to take part in an 8 to 24 week internship at one of Infosys' global offices. InStep interns are also provided career opportunities with Infosys.

In 1997 Infosys started the "Catch them Young Programme", to expose the urban youth to the world of Information Technology by conducting a summer vacation programme. The programme is aimed at developing an interest and understanding of computer science and information technology. This programme is targeted at students in Grade IX level.^[12]

In 2002, the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and Infosys started the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award. This technology award recognizes enterprises and individuals who have transformed their businesses and the society leveraging information technology. Past winners include Samsung, Amazon.com, Capital One, RBS and ING Direct.

Research

One of the major initiatives taken by Infosys in terms of research was to develop a corporate R&D wing called Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs). SETLabs was founded in 2000 to carry out applied research for the development of processes, frameworks and methodologies to effectively capture customer requirements and to iron out common critical issues during a project lifecycle.

Infosys publishes a peer-reviewed quarterly journal called SETLabs Briefings which has articles written by the researchers at SETLabs on various current and future business-transforming technology management themes. Infosys has an RFID and Pervasive Computing Technology practice which is providing RFID and wireless services to clients.^[13] Infosys along with Motorola developed an RFID interactive mirror for Paxar. ^[14] ^[15]

SETLabs has created about five to six frameworks in the domains of business modelling, technology and product innovation. ^[16]

Global offices

Asia Pacific

India: Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Mangalore,New Delhi, Mysore, Mohali, Thiruvananthapuram, Chandigarh, Kolkata (proposed and now confirmed), Vishakapatnam (proposed)^[17]

Australia: Melbourne, Sydney
China: Beijing, Shanghai

Further information: Infosys China

Hong Kong: Hong Kong
Japan: Tokyo
Mauritius: Mauritius
UAE: Sharjah
Philippines: Taguig City

North America

Canada: Toronto
USA: Atlanta (GA), Bellevue (WA), Bridgewater (NJ), Charlotte (NC), Southfield (MI), Fremont (CA), Houston (TX), Glastonbury (CT), Lake Forest (CA), Lisle (IL), New York, Phoenix (AZ), Plano (TX), Quincy (MA), Reston (VA)
Mexico: Monterrey

EUROPE:

Belgium: Brussels
Denmark: Copenhagen
Finland: Helsinki
France: Paris
Germany: Frankfurt, Stuttgart
Italy: Milano
Norway: Oslo
Poland: Łódź
The Netherlands: Utrecht
Spain: Madrid, Burgos
Sweden: Stockholm
Switzerland: Zürich
UK: Canary Wharf, London

Know about CTS!!!

2008-05-30T01:53:00.000-07:00

Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an information technology services company with headquarters in Teaneck, New Jersey U.S.A. and with significant operations in Chennai, India.

Cognizant has been named to the 2007 Fortune 100 Fastest-Growing Companies List for the fifth consecutive year, making it the only company receiving the “Five-year all-stars” distinction in 2007’s list.^[1]

Cognizant has also been named in the top 10 of Business Week’s Hot Growth Technology Companies. Cognizant was ranked 6th overall. It was the #1 ranked IT services Company in the list.

History

Cognizant started in 1994, as Dun & Bradstreet Satyam Software (by Sushant Gupta) - the in-house technology development center for the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (D&B) and its operating units. Initially a joint venture between Dun & Bradstreet (76%) and Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (24%), it soon became a 100% subsidiary of D&B Corp. In 1996, the company became a division of the Cognizant Corporation, after the split-up of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation.

In June 1998, Cognizant Corporation was again split into independent companies, and Cognizant Technology Solutions was formed as a division of IMS Health, a provider of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The same year, the company completed its initial public offering and was listed on the NASDAQ. In November 2002, IMS Health divested its majority interest in Cognizant through a tax-free split-off.

Operations

Although it is headquartered in New Jersey, USA, most of Cognizant Technology Solutions' employees are based in the city of Chennai, India. It also has offices in Bangalore, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Cochin and development centres in Shanghai, China and Amsterdam. Cognizant has over 55,000 employees. It became the first company in the world to be certified for CMMI-Level5 per the latest model.[4]

Cognizant has aligned its businesses vertically and has clients in

In addition to vertical focus, Cognizant also provides specialty technology services through its horizontal expertise such as Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, CRM, ERP,ITIS,BPO etc.

Financial Health

Cognizant's revenue for the fourth quarter of year 2006 is up 65 per cent from $256.9 million for the corresponding quarter the previous year to $424.4 million, and the company ended the year 2006 with $1.424 billion in revenue. During this quarter the company added a net total of almost 4,500 employees and more than 50,000 employees in 2006 overall. The company has a debt free balance sheet. Its income has seen a compounded 40% annual growth in the last few years. For the five years ended Dec. 31, 2006, CTSH has grown its revenue by an average of 58.1% every year.^[2]

After the close of trading on November 16, 2006 Cognizant moved from the mid cap S&P 400 to the S&P 500. On March 5th 2007 Cognizant became first American company to ring the NASDAQ opening bell remotely, from the Company's Chennai, India techno-complex.

COMPETITION

Its primary competitors are Infosys and other IT services companies such as Accenture, Perot Systems, Satyam, Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Wipro, Aricent,HCL Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services.

Useful words, resume, tips 2 crack INFY!!

2008-05-29T05:00:00.001-07:00

Hi..to all.. sorry for not posting 4 long time.. was out of station.. any way hope that the
materials available here helped u a lot and u are geared up for MONDAY.

We have uploaded a .rar file n rapidshare which contains
1. High frequency english (GRE) words
2. Resume of rama alumni
3. Tips to crack INFY.. n many more...

Pls find it n the folln link and make the fullest use of it..

http://rapidshare.com/files/118554598/useful_attachments.zip.html

Please free to ask any doubts u ve in the comment section along with ur mail id..

All the best !!

PREP IS VERY IMPORTANT THIS TIME ( DECREASE IN INTAKE BY COs)

2008-05-22T06:13:00.000-07:00

Preparation is very very important this year because the no.of companies visiting will be less and the no.of selections by the visiting companies will also be less. Since the requirements are less, the cut off in aptitude test will be kept more and the no.of answers expected from the students will be more.

In short , as I told in 'The Economic Times' there will be more focus on the quality.

1.Visit freshersworld site. Go to sample papers and solve Cognizant & Infosys papers first.

2.Read R.S. agarwal's books.

3. Read the interview questions first which is available in placement dept.

4. Prepare for C well.

5.Try to know the questions asked in other colleges by Cognizant, Infosys.

Some numbers:

Kumaraguru - Cognizant-day 1- 169 (last year 204) .See the reduction

Sri sairam - TCS- day 1 - 181

RMK - TCS - day 1- 185

All the best!

A chance to use ur coding skills!!! CODE ZAP GURU BY WIPRO!!

2008-05-22T05:56:00.000-07:00

This is in pursuance with the previous mailer on the Code Zap Guru.
Please ask your 3rd year students who have just finished exams and are
moving to final year to register and participate in the same.

We have some really exciting prizes!!!
Please revert to me for any queries!

Registration is open!

<http://www.codezapguru.com/>

Question 6

2008-05-21T21:07:00.000-07:00

Usual position of Stable
A stable consists of 32 horses. The Position of horses in the stable are as shown in the above pic. Each part consists of 4 horses. The center part of the stable is for storage of grass. There is a maid for maintenance of this stable. Everyday morning & evening the owner checks, if 32 horses are there or not? He stands in the corner of the stable and count in each directions ( as arrows indicated in pic ), if 12 horses are there he will be satisfied.
One day a man came with 8 horses. He wanted to stay a night in that stable. The maid give the permission and told him about the owner's act. The man accepted the conditions and stayed. and while going back in the morning he took( theft) 4 more horses from the stable. And even noone can know about the theft.
QUESTION 1:
What is the position of the stable in night ?
QUESTION 2:
What is the position of the stable in morning after theft ?

Question 5

2008-05-21T20:52:00.000-07:00

A wise man carrying 2 bags of coconut from trichy to chennai. Each bag consists of 25 coconuts. There are 25 checkposts between trichy and chennai. As per the government rule the passengers must pay the tax of 1 coconut per bag in each checkpost. While reaching chennai how many coconut does the wise man have ?

Question 4 - Picto puzzle

2008-05-19T08:17:00.000-07:00

I have a machine which has four cog wheels in constant mesh. The largest cog has 72 teeth and the others have 36, 25 and 15 respectively. How many revolutions must the largest cog make before each of the cogs is back in its starting position?

Question - 3 [ JUST SAY WAT U SEE ]

2008-05-19T08:11:00.000-07:00

1. TOOL
O O
O O
LOOT

2. H I J K L M N O

3. DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDWESTDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I recommend you not to think too much and ve a wise guess, its just lateral thinking.

Crack these and mail ur ans 2 ssnplacement2008@gmail.com or put ur ans as comments

Question-2 19/05

2008-05-19T06:58:00.000-07:00

Next number in the series is 1 , 2 , 4 , 13 , 31 , 112 , ?
If you can crack this one, leave ur ans n the comments section or mail it to ssnplacement2008@gmail.com

A chance to get a answer right after a long time!!!

2008-05-18T08:11:00.000-07:00

Hereby, we are starting the "Question a day" series of aptitude qns (puzzles also).
Each day, a question or more will be put up on this blog followed by the answer
every night.

Pls note these qns have been asked in placements sometime or the other,

To start off with, a mathematical one:

"QUESTION A DAY"

Complete the series: 5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ?

If you can crack this one, leave ur ans n the comments section or mail it to
ssnplacement2008@gmail.com

All the best

"Every thing is possible, We just need to try!"

C#.net & JAVA materials available here

2008-05-17T00:16:00.000-07:00

hi.. The E - books for C#.net and JAVA have been uploaded in rapidshare, n follow the link

http://rapidshare.com/files/115484080/C_.NET___JAVA.zip.htm l

pls do feel free 2 have ur comments.... it means a lot to us and will help in improving
this blog.

"WORK TOWARDS WHAT U DESIRE"

"WHEN GOIN GETS TOUGH, TOUGH GETS GOIN"

C, C++ E- books zip, download here..

2008-05-16T00:01:00.000-07:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/115253421/C_And_C__.zip.html

Look here for further useful files..

Test, Training & Placement schedule

2008-05-15T23:25:00.000-07:00

COMPLETE SOLUTION FOR THE QNS YOU HAD REGARDING THE APTITUDE TEST
The first test scores will not be considered for training. You will have another assessment on 23rd. This will be available on 23rd only.

Scores of this test will be considered. Those who have passed in the first will also take the test to know the improvement.

Those who fail shall take a training program at SSN from 26th to 29th. The cost will be informed soon. The reps will approach few firms and get rates for 0-100 students / 101-200 / 201-300. Depending on the numbers rate will vary. They will choose the best and offer the contract.

Those who have joined outside need not come to college. But they have to produce the receipt in their name and acertificate from the training firm on 2 June.Or else they can not take any placement test.

Hostel facilities will be provided for the students during the training program.

Now you can prepare seriously using the system or by going thru' the books.

Visit : freshersworld.com site. go to sample papers. solve papers of Cognizant and infosys first.

Take practice tests in the system.

Schedule:

June

2- CTS

3-Infosys

4- reserved - M.E students only will attend iNautix at Crescent college.

5- Nil

6-Nil

7-Nil

8-Nil

9- reserved - PPT by LISTER

10- Keane

11-iNautix for B.E & MCA

12- LISTER - 5.50 lakhs (Dream job) -Only for CSE & IT

13, 14 - Iflex solutions

Resume format will be sent in a day or two.

Keep checking for new updates

"WORK TOWARDS WHAT U DESIRE"

All the best

Placements 08 season !!! Yahoo.. !!!

2008-05-15T23:11:00.000-07:00

Hi... to all... first of all a big thank q to our alumni RAMASUBRAMANIAN R who had guided us in various sections such as aptitude, GD, Interviews required for the placement.

We have placed the link to the files given by RAMA that are very much useful in preparing for the placement. The files include

1. E - Books for C,C++,C#,JAVA etc
2. Aptitude questions collection.
3. Placement papers collection.
4. Some sample resume (you ve got around 300 to refer)

This blog will also be updated as there is any news regarding the placement 2008. So, keep checking out this and feel free to put forward ur comments...

"WORK TOWARDS WHAT U DESIRE"

All the best

Some Imp Files

2008-05-15T23:05:00.000-07:00

TCS: http://www.MegaShare.com/411649
CTS: http://www.MegaShare.com/411652
Aptitude: http://www.MegaShare.com/411657
DB: http://www.MegaShare.com/411665
Tips: http://www.MegaShare.com/411628 Password:ssneee
Resume: http://www.MegaShare.com/411672

Useful Tips

2008-05-15T22:54:00.000-07:00

1.1 How is the IT field?
""Market is good or bad, we should get a good job"". Always fresher should keep this mentality. Market is really very good. We need not worry about market status. Keep on trying till you get a good job. Do fight with your job hunting. Surely you will win.
1.2 Do we need to study any mainframe/ testing/ .NET, etc?
For fresher, absolutely no need for computer courses. Aptitude, C, C++ is enough to get a good job and there is no need of practical knowledge. A good guidance is hundred times better than a computer course.
If you got degree before 2004 and not strong in any of the software language, better join some computer courses like testing/ mainframe/ .NET, prepare a fake a resume with one year experience and do apply regularly. In the interview, many times they don’t ask about your experience. Your technical knowledge and way to explain the project is enough to get a job.
1.3 How to get call letters from companies?
Create one Yahoo ID and register it in to the following yahoo groups.
nestjobs (nestjobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com), chetana, freshers
You use to get at least 100 mails daily regarding recruitment. Don't use your personal id, create a new one.
One more point, Every Wednesday, follow "Economic Times or Times of India"(Bangalore openings) and "The Hindu"(Chennai openings) without fail. There you can find more opportunities. Try to get past one year Economic Times and Hindu papers from library. Collect all the jobs related ids.(including experience also.)
Apply to all the ids. You will be regularly getting interview calls from companies.
1.4 How do we prepare resume?
Freshers: Companies like Infosys, TCS and Wipro expects your percentage from 10th onwards, so it is better include all your curriculum (10th, 12th, all Degree) percentage in your resume. Resumes should be scanable it should be simple and easy to get information within a single look. It should not contain unwanted information.
Experience: You resume should have the following details, apart from the basic details.
1. Company name
2. Project name
3. Project duration
4. Client
5. Team size
6. Role
7. Project description
8. Activities (We have to mention our project activities)
9. Platform
1.5 How do we apply?
If you get any openings specific to your skill set, follow as indicted in the advertisement.

If you are applying for multiple companies, without advertisements or for positions not specific to your skill sets,
1. Prepare a generalized cover letter, ascii format resume(plain text format resume) and Word format resume
2. Paste your covering letter followed by the plaintext resume in the compose box of your mail
3. Attach your word format resume.
4. Subject should be like, “Resume for Software Engineer (C, C++, JAVA and VC++)”
5. Type your id in “TO’ field and bulk of ids in “BCC” field, do apply.
1.6 How do we subscribe to receive yahoo group mails?
It is a very simple process. Just send an empty mail to the particular yahoo group subscription mail id. For example, if you want to receive “nestjobs” mails. Send an empty mail to nestjobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
1.7 Where do we get company model question papers?
If you get a call letter for written test, from any companies then go to the following sites...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nestjobs/files/
http://www.chetana-jobs.com
http://www.vyomworld.com/placementpapers
http://www.go4campus.com/mepz.asp
http://www.geocities.com/careeraid2003/company.html
http://vvasan.hypermart.net/
http://freshersworld.com/questions/questions.htm
http://www.aucse.com/Question%20Bank.htm

Collect the previous question papers and prepare well. Never miss to go to that site before you go for Interview/Test. There may be a chance to get the same question papers.
1.8 What are the books we have to prepare before we go for test/ interview?
Aptitude:
Arithmetic Reasoning - R.S.Agarwal
Barron's GRE Guide.
Shakuntala Devi, George summer puzzle books

Technical Books:
For freshers, C and C++ is enough to get a job.
Let us C, C++, Exploring C - YASHAVANT P. KANETKAR
Turbo C++ - Robert lafore (A very good guide to get basic idea about C++ and OOPS)
Complete Reference – C, C++
1.9 Where do we get the details about companies and details?
http://bangaloreit.com/src/companySearch.asp (Bangalore companies)
http://www.stpc.soft.net/perform_mnc.htm (Chennai companies)
http://www.dqindia.com/content/dq_top20/dqtopcomps.asp?dqlist=top200 (top 200 IT companies)
1.10 Am I suitable for IT field?
Anyone who has completed a graduation from an affiliated university is suitable for IT field. IT field does not expect any specialization from your graduation but it expect good problem solving, logical thinking and good communication skills. This can be achieved along with your curriculum subjects by spending an hour per day. R.S. Agarwal is good subject oriented book for preparing aptitude. Any MBA entrance book is suitable to prepare logical reasoning etc. In fact anyone who is not technically strong but having logical thinking skills is very much suitable for this field. It does not mean that technical people are not suitable.
1.11 Employee reference for MNC’s
If anyone need reference to attend written test or interview or forwarding resume kindly contact any of our career guidance team members. Our career guidance team maintains the spool of reference and provides you when the need arises.

2. Company test patterns
2.1 How to prepare for Infosys?
There is nothing to worry about the Infosys written test. It is easy if you keep your mind cool. There will be 10 questions in aptitude test, each of different marks & without multiple choices. Duration is 1 hr & you have to get at least 7-8 correct to get short-listed. You had to put down the procedure also in the paper. These puzzles are similar to the one in Shakuntala & George Summers. Attempt all questions, as there is no negative marking. No problem if we guess also. Mostly there will be questions on time & distance, probability, puzzles (George Summers), watch questions (related to time), escalator problem, completion of series & profit-loss questions.
Verbal is very easy. There will be 45 multiple-choice questions to be answered in 30 min. Attempt all questions. Mostly there will be completion of sentences (20 Q), correction of sentences (10Q) reading comprehension (5Q), synonyms & antonyms (10Q).
Short listing is mainly based on aptitude not on verbal. Concentrate more on aptitude. We can do very silly mistakes there. So be cool.
Regarding interview, firstly it's not a technical interview. It is purely HR. It will be around 20-30 min. They will even ask 2-3 puzzles. They are easy. If we don't answer any of them also there is no problem. You should be confident whether it is right or wrong. If you are through the written test then you will be almost through the interview. They almost select everyone in the interview. So concentrate more on the written test.
2.2 How to prepare for TCS?
There were 3 main sections verbal, aptitude and reasoning. Generally any company will not change the question paper for a year. So, you people can give importance to 2004 Question Papers. You can collect the sample QP from the about websites. We can see QP from 1995 onwards. Preparing all those papers is enough to get placement. There will be section cut off. Aptitude any one can clear. But In verbal section only we can beat others.
Don’t miss to prepare all the verbal section from 1995 onwards. The choices given to synonym and antonym part will be changed. But the question may be the same one. So, Open "MS WORD" and collect synonym and antonyms for all the words found in all the QP.
Regarding interview:
They check only the confidential level of the candidate. They never expect you to answer for each and every question. All they need to check is how bold you are, how much confidence you have on you. always don’t expect questions from Areas of Interest. Always have a pleasant smile in your face and keep yourself very cool. That is more important than anything. They may sometime ask very basic questions like what is the version of WINDOWS you have worked on? But answers for them are very much important. For non-computer students the interview will be very simple. They need not worry that they don’t know much technically.
Then HR interview, you should be very careful here. They may ask very tricky questions. Think twice before answering to these questions. The general questions in HR interview will be, why do you want to join TCS? What do you want to become after 3 years? Why TCS should take you in?
Be confident and be cool, which is enough to clear TCS interview.

3. Useful websites
3.1 Company question paper sites
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nestjobs/files/
http://www.chetana-jobs.com
http://www.vyomworld.com/placementpapers
http://www.go4campus.com/mepz.asp
http://www.geocities.com/careeraid2003/company.html
http://vvasan.hypermart.net/
http://freshersworld.com/questions/questions.htm
http://www.aucse.com/Question%20Bank.htm
3.2 Technical document sites
http://www.codeguru.com(c, c++, vc++ AND .NET)
http://www.onesmartclick.com/programming/programming.html (All)
http://www.acetheinterview.com/qanda/ (All)
http://www.techinterviews.com/ (All)
http://www.fredosaurus.com/notes-cpp/index.html (C++)
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ (C++)
http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/ (All)
http://williamstallings.com/Extras/OS-Notes/notes.html (OS)
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~solomon/cs537/notes.html (OS)
http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ (Windows)
http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/Year2/PLDS210/ds_ToC.html (Data Structure)
http://hebb.cis.uoguelph.ca/~dave/343/Lectures/testing.html (Testing)
http://pweb.netcom.com/~tjensen/ptr/pointers.htm (Pointers)
http://www.intelinfo.com/Critchie (very good site)
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/420/ (Java)
http://www.nist.gov/dads/ (All)
http://www.intelinfo.com/free_java_training.html (Java)
http://www.math.umd.edu/~lify/hotlink.html (All)
http://www.holub.com/goodies/rules.html (All)
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/ (Java, good one)
http://www.ibiblio.org/winsock/winsock-1.1/winsock.html (Win socket)
http://www.hk8.org/old%5Fweb/ (good one)
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html(C and UNIX)
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/cbook/html/(C)
http://devcentral.iticentral.com/ (All)
http://www.informit.com/ (All)
http://www.thefreecountry.com/ (All, Very good one)
http://www.tcfb.com/freetechbooks/ (All)
http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/javafaq.html (Java)
http://www.afu.com/javafaq.html (Java)
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/FAQs-and-Tutorials.html (Java)
http://www.comeaucomputing.com/techtalk/(C and C++)
http://www.memorymanagement.org (excellent)
3.3 Puzzle sites
http://puzzle.dse.nl/index_us.html
http://www.chlond.demon.co.uk/academic/puzzles.html
http://thinks.com/webguide/mathpuzzles.htm
http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/
http://www.brainbashers.com/
http://barryispuzzled.com/
http://www.braingle.com/