TCS Account Manager Interview Questions & Reviews

Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 4 months)

Excrutiatingly long drawn. TCS makes very few lateral hires apparently in the US so they are extra cautious and very very conservative. Definitely not a very open minded company. Initial communications are with the hiring managers and HR is only involved at the offer letter stage. There were 2-3 phone interviews, 2 in-person interviews and 1 Skype interview with folks from Offshore (India). The US infrastructure at the offices are limited with no video conferencing facilities. The power center is India-based so decision making is very limited with hiring managers. There is a tendency to get mass consensus with several cross-functional stakeholders interviewing at various times; there is almost a reverance / worshipping of senior management within the company, so much that it's almost sycophantic and defies logic - shows lack of empowerment at middle management levels.
The culture of the company is very Asian, high reverance to senior management, lack of personal empowerment, thereby dissatisfying to people with leadership potential and why-sayers. It's a good company to work for if you like job stability, like to work for 20+ years in a 9-5 job with low expectations of career growth but prefer predictable stable life sans excitement.