TIAA Interview Experience (On-Campus) 2022
Round 1: Aptitude test and coding round (online β Proctored)
Test Pattern :
Part 1: Cognitive and Technical test (60 Ques β 60 Minutes) β No Negative Marking. It contained 4 sections
- English Usage β meaning of the word, the meaning of phrases, reordering sentences, spot errors in a sentence, questions based on paragraph
- Analytical Reasoning β blood relation, direction-based question, mirror images, guess the next number in a pattern
- Quantitative Aptitude β speed-distance-time, probability, simple and compound interest, ratio and proportion, profit and loss, Venn diagram
- Technical round β java, c++, OOPs and data structures, DBMS queries, guess the output of code
Part 2: Coding test (2 Ques β 30 Minutes)
- Question 1: Level: Easy. Given hours, minutes, and seconds, we have to return time in seconds
- Question 2: Level: Easy. Given 2 arrays and number K, we have to count numbers in array 1 smaller than K and numbers in array 2 greater than K. then return the maximum of these 2 numbers.
Submitting Part 1 is compulsory to attempt Part 2
Tip: Questions are of easy level, so you should solve them as fast as possible, time of submission is deciding factor.
Round 2: Technical Interview (online on zoom β 60 mins)
- Introduction
- Project discussion
- Technologies used in projects were discussed, interviewer checked my depth of understanding of the technologies that I used.
- Java-related OOPs concepts
- I had to share the screen and code. the question was to print all pairs from the array which gives a sum equal to K.There are 2 approaches 2 pointer method and the of use the map. I explained both of them. Hereβs a link to the problem
- DBMS query: Print salaries of all employees who leave in Pune
- Asked when we can use having and where and can we use them together
- How to decide which database to use SQL or NoSQL
- What reference material do you use when you are stuck on some problem
- I asked questions related to work-life balance and growth I can achieve in the company.
The interviewer was very humble and helped me with hints when I got stuck.
Round 3: Managerial Round (online on zoom β 30 mins)
- Introduction
- What are your hobbies other than technical ones(you will get cross questions on hobbies you tell)
- What kind of company do you want to work for ( here, he wanted me to tell him about my dream company)
- Asked what I know about TIAA(I told him), then he told me about the company and work culture
- Asked about certifications I did
The interviewer was very chill, the interview went like breeze. We got the result after 4 days. 8 students from our college were selected.