Cognizant Interview Experience

Hi all, I am back again with a new interview experience with cognizant.

The interview was held on 11th March 18, at Unitech, Kolkata…. The candidates who cleared an online assessment by amcat were called for the interview.

The assessment was on quantitative, verbal and non verbal questions. Also, there was a coding test of one hour that comprised of two programs. The problems were quite simple based on loops, arrays and functions. However, it must not be taken lightly because some Of the problems were quite challenging.

I insists one to solve some questions from hackerank before you sit for the automata round.

Let's move on to the interview experience now.

My reporting time was 11:00 am and I reached there on time with all the asked documents. The amcat team was present there to assess and check the documents. I must highlight that they are very strict with the documents, so don't miss out carrying any of the document they have asked for.

Each of the candidate was given a serial number and they were called for the technical interview accordingly.

While I was impatiently waiting for my turn to come, I was often interacting with the candidates who have had appeared for the technical round.

I got to know that a lot of questions on project work was being asked.

Hardly an hour was passed when I was called for the interview. I was pretty excited and prepared. I greeted the interviewer.

He went through my cv and asked me about my schooling and graduation.

When he noticed in my cv that I was have an experience as a web developer, he asked me to show a project of mine.

I shared with him the url of one of my recent live project.

He asked me the portions on which I had worked and how long did I take to complete it. He also asked me how did I coded a particular section in the website. I explained him the whole process well and he seemed convinced with my explanation.

He continued asking me more questions. They are-

• Write a query to get the second highest salary from an employee table having employee name, ID and salary as the fields.

(I used offset and limit to use it.)

• He asked me to use max function to do the same.

(I did the same using max.)

• What do u know about cognizant.

He then gave me a logical problem to solve

• Twice my age - 1 is equal to the age of my father.

           And when the digits of my age is reversed it becomes equal to the age of my father. What is my age.

• Write a program is C to reverse your name.
• What is regression testing.?
• You have been given a electrical balance and ten plates each having 10 marbles of 10gm each. But there is a plate with all ten marbles of 9gm. How can you detect the faulty plate by using the balance just once.

I answered all of the questions and moved to the Hr round. The questions in the Hr round were very simple.

• Where do you stay?

• Why you are interested in this job.
• Do you have any relocation issue.

So this was all about my interview experience at cognizant. Hope it will be helpful to you.
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