"Crack ThoughtWorks"

              




Hi, Yesterday i become glad by listening  that ThoughtWorks (DREAM COMPANY) going to visit in GNDU  for 2013 Batch. ThoughtWorks is the 1st company visiting for 2013 batch. so student have no experience how to crack the interview and what companies are looking for. Here is little effort from my side to help  juniors so they can start there career in reputed companies.
          So, every company have different requirement according to the position. some companies are looking for totally technical guys and dont deal with marks or any other stuff like no backlog, no gap and some do. TW is purely a technical company and have a group of great talented curious  person so they are looking for the same.
Main Thing is "FOOD IS NOT FREE". A company never pay you for free if they are paying such high packages(5.86LPA) then they expect much from you side too. Don't panic, Be confident you can do it. just need of will power  and curiosity and should be a technical guy.
 The hiring procedure of TW include 5 rounds.
 1) Written Test
 2) Pair Programming Round
 3) Technical Interview Round 1
 4) Technical Interview Round 2
 5) HR Round.
Written Test:  
Written Test will not a aptitude test. it wouldn't contain any quantitative or reasoning question. It will a flow chart round which would be difficult to crack. Appox. only around 10%  clear this round but again practice make the man perfect and The TRICK IS THAT JUST GOOGLE YOU WOULD GET SAME FULL TEST PAPER. But this is not enough, approximately all of you must have question paper in hands but still it will not easy to crack because you don't know the correct answers and even your answers are correct but you cant remember the answer and it would become difficult to solve the paper again in such strict time limit. Keep in mind that you are not alone who have paper everyone have paper in there hands prior So practice very hard.
Around 400 student participated but only 31 was able to crack this round so practice hard.
Pair Programming Round:
In this round they will give you 1 problem and you have to break down the logic and code that problem with the help of your programming partner(a person from the side of TW) in your favorite language. Main thing is that you have to take deep care of  coding scenario and naming conventions  and if your are coding in object oriented language then you have to follow all the rules of OOPS. AGAIN THERE IS A TRICK JUST GOOGLE FOR TW PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS AND YOU WILL GET ALL THE PROBLEM STATEMENTS. Practice 1 or 2 problem in prior.
Here is sample Code which was coded by me during last year TW drive.

Look at the naming convention adopted in this code. don't go for logic in deep and keep talking with your partner during this round  tell him each & everything what you are going to do. Your logic, the  Name conventions, why you adopted for particular programming language, everything share with him/her.
Only 8 students left after this round.

Technical Round 1: unfortunately i was out in this round reason are many. but main reason is OVER CONFIDENT. So don't make such a silly mistakes. i didn't revise anything. So  please be prepared. The interview is not like a other companies interview they will ask you simple question. Pattern is very much different.
This is 2-to-1 round, you will interviewed by 2 person. The interview will start with OPPS design  question in UML.
Like: Design Regulator of FAN
Design Chess Game.
Design Model for university.
And many more......
 for cracking this round read OOPS book by Rambaugh.
After reading this book practice your hand on live Problems.
After opps design question they might go for a puzzles. Don't panic if you found that problem is difficult. INTERVIEWER NEVER EXPECT RIGHT ANSWER THEY ALWAYS EXPECT A RIGHT APPROACH.
Your problem solving skills will play role. After puzzles you will face some Algorithm design question and some question on Data Structure.
find some Algorithmic question on this link and try to crack the logic.
ONLY 1 student left after this round.
Technical Round 2:  In this round they will ask you some new problem from the same domain like oops, DS, ADA. Keep in mind that keep talking with interviewer tell him/her everything.
Do brainstorming find logic and explain your logic like that  "I Think *WE* can solve this problem by this way". Have a deep look on last line, i told that "WE" not "I" try to involve interviewer in you problem work like a team, explain your approach, may be you will on right way and interview will give you some clue to solve problem or if you are on wrong path interview can guide you. so try to involve him.
some practice Books for this round: Crack the coding interview & Algorithm made easy.

HR Round: Not much sure about the HR cos is was out till this round So it would be general HR round.
Because they know well That "GEEKS ARE OFTEN WEEK IN ENGLISH". Ohhh sorry... i mean "WEAK". :)

BEST OF LUCK TO ALL.