I applied online. I interviewed at Tata Consultancy Services (Hyderâbâd)
Interview
What are the key differences between Spring Boot and Spring Framework?
How does Spring Boot auto-configuration work?
What is the purpose of the @SpringBootApplication annotation?
How do you create and configure a custom starter in Spring Boot?
What is the difference between @Component, @Service, and @Repository?
How does dependency injection work in Spring Boot?
What are the different scopes available for Spring Beans?
How do you handle exceptions globally in Spring Boot?
What is the difference between @RestController and @Controller?
How does Spring Boot manage database connections?
What is the role of application.properties or application.yml in Spring Boot?
How do you implement pagination and sorting in Spring Data JPA?
What is the difference between JpaRepository and CrudRepository?
How do you enable CORS in a Spring Boot application?
How does Spring Boot handle security, and what is Spring Security?
What is OAuth2, and how do you implement it in Spring Boot?
How does Spring Boot support microservices architecture?
What are circuit breakers, and how do you implement them in Spring Boot?
walk in drive having multiple rounds of interview based on experience of the individual, domain based problem solving and technology based questions alongside project based review questions, lastly, managerial or behavior round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HR process was inefficient and overall interview process was not at all well-defined.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Tata Consultancy Services (Pune) in Jun 2026
Interview
It was face to face round, waited for 4-5 hr.
After a long wait technical rounds happened, This opening for springboot, microservices.
I think Interviewer was completely tired and asked some technical question and done.
This is not expected from tcs hiring team, waited whole day and this type of behavior by interviewer.
Waste of time and effort
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Directly aks below questions, no introducition, no project details, nothing.
Different between inject and autowired
Have you worked on jsp? Do you know servlet?
Ok done. Is this a joke?
I interviewed at Tata Consultancy Services (Hyderâbâd)
Interview
Overall the interview was around basics of java programming and oracle. The difficulty level of questions would be easy. It is about java streams and oracle joins. Finding the largest salary of an employee, foreign key relationship