Tata Elxsi

Company profile:
Tata Elxsi Limited (BSE: 500408, NSE: TATAELXSI) is a technology company of the Tata Group in India with a distinct focus on design. It delivers outsourced product design and R&D services and solutions to customers worldwide, while also providing solutions through four core practices: product design services, design and engineering, system integration services, and visual computing labs. The company has a team of more than 3600 engineers and designers. It is headquartered in Bangalore

Placement Pattern:
General test
Interview

General Test :
Two separate tests:

1. Technical (30 questions-30 minutes) - Separate questions for CS and EC.
Technical will be conducted first, followed by Analytical.
No Negative marking.
No Separate Question Booklets.
Everybody had the same one -Technical test (for computer science) consisted MAINLY 'C' .
2. Analytical (30 questions-20 minutes)
Questions from
Numbers/Simplification/Problems
Ages/Profit and Loss/
Ratio & Proportion/
Time & Work/Pipes & Cisterns/
Time & Distance/Problems on Trains
Problems on Boats & Streams
Area/Volume & Surface Area
Calendar/Clocks.

Technical Sample Paper

1) Graphics:- Painters algorithm is used for...........

2) Graphics:-Why is 'Lighting' operations done on World Coordinates?

3) A structure was given and it contained normal data as well as some bit-wise data. You had to find the total size taken up by the structure

4) Questions on C External Variables.

5) How can you call a function written in FORTRAN from a C program

6) Normal question on pointer addition

7) Another question on linked list

8) A question on 64 bit OS's and Virtual Memory

9) UNIX question on 'who' output and then doing some other operation and then asking you whats the output.

10) UNIX question on 'awd' operation.

11) A big code with lots of pointers. There was a struct which contained 2 arrays. Then an array of that structure was declared. The code used these structures and you had to find the values of a variable 'j' at various points inside the code.

12) A code which had some declarations of some data items. There were a couple of normal data items(char,int..) and some pointers as well and a malloc call. You have to find the total memory taken up in the stack (Hint: Pointers and all are allocated in heap, not in stack, so dont count them).Also in most of these questions, they were specifying that the OS was 32 bit.

13) A question on nesting of pointers. There was this pointer to a function which returned an array of char pointers.....You had to give the exact definition of the function

14) Value of 2 particular variables in C (MAXINT and some other constant)

15) What do you need to do to open more than 10 files simultaneously in Microsoft Operating System?

16) A question on Macro( consisted of something like CTRL&037)

17) Question on Macro expansion


Analytical Sample Paper

1) 101^100 -1 is divisible by.....

2) Question on boat (stream velocity given...)

3) Train Question ( Goods and Passenger train.. their speeds given..)

4) Pipe question (with leak at the bottom..)

5) Salary & Proportion problem

6) Another problem on Salary & Proportion

7) Age question-father and son

8) Another age question

9)Question on ratio (Sachin: Saurav= Saurav:Rahul=3:2....together they scored some runs,you had to find the runs scored by Sachin)

10) Angle between hands when time is 2:20

11) x^2 + 4 y^2 =4xy.Find x:y

12) A question on Arithmetic Progression (something like 5 times the 5th term is 8 times the 8th term. find 12th term...)

13) A and B's work units given. They were together given Rs.720.When C joined, they together completed the work in 5 days. Find C's wages

14) There was a circle. A square of max size was cut from it. From this square, a circle of max size was cut. What was the ratio of this final size w.r.t initial size?

15) A runs 3/4th faster than B. One of them was placed some metres ahead. How far should the finishing post be placed so that both of them finish at the same time?

16) Longest time one has to wait for next birthday?(366/365/4 years/8years)

17) Next no: in the sequence: 7,11,__,19,23

18) Some question on steps...it was 10 ft high...an ant travelled upwards .and total time taken ?

19) Cricket-some data on run-rate of the opposition being 15%....

20) Time & Distance: somebody was traveling along the circumference....