I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Apr 2018
Interview
It took a complete day.
1st Round:
It consist of Amcat based technical round where 2 coding problems were given along with 10-12 MCQ.
2nd Round:
It was around 30 min F2F Technical Interview focused on Oops Concepts, Sql and Project related questions.
3rd Round:
Hr Round and Salary discussion.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was focussed on Oops Concept and Few Sql Queries
Two interviews with coding test and and aptitute test , pretty easy , aske about projects done and java oops questions also sql question , position was full stack developer
We had many rounds like 3 rounds before interview and interview was quite good. I got selected into cognizant as and programmer analyst trainee. I did not focus much on java, so due to that i Got 4 lpa
They asked very basic questions of reversing a string java basics and sql introduction and asked some data structures concepts finally few hr questions so on finally interviewer looks very strict interview got rejected
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