Cognizant interview experience Real time questions & tips from candidates to crack your interview
SDE - 1
Cognizant
3 rounds | 3 Coding
problems
Selected Interview preparation journey
Preparation
Duration: 3 months
Topics: Quant, Logical , DBMS, Data Structure, C , C++ language, HTML, CSS,SQL, Java
Tip 1 : You need a strong aptitude for knowledge as a first tip
Tip 2 : Solve questions from previous coding questions
Tip 3 : Make sure your resume includes at least two projects
Application process
Where: Other
Eligibility: Above 7 CGPA
Tip 1 : Have at least 2 good projects mentioned in your resume with a link
Tip 2 : Focus on skills, internships, projects, and experiences.
Tip 3 : Make it simple, crisp, and one page
Interview rounds
01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration105 mnutes
Interview date1 Dec 2019
Coding problem1
Round1 is an Aptitude round that is on the Amcat platform. This round consists of four sections namely.
1. MCQ Questions
Quant (24 questions 35 minutes)
Logical (25 questions 35 minutes)
Code debugging (7 questions 20 minutes)
Essay question for 15 minutes.
02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration45 minutes
Interview date20 Dec 2019
Coding problem1
It was a technical Interview, interviewers were very friendly. There was one coding question from strings. And they have asked about the projects which I mentioned in my resume.
1. Tell me About Your Minor and Major project.
2. Can You Elaborate Major Project?
3. What is sllegalservices.in/ (A Personal Website created by me.)
4. Did You hosted in alone?
5. Tell me entire Process of Web Hosting?
6. Why don’t you hosted your website on cloud platform like AWS and Azure.
7. Are you aware about Python?
8. What is Django?
9. Enlist the Technologies used in this website.
10. What is Bootstrap?
11. What is PHP and MySQL?
12. Write Syntax to update column properties.
13. How will you combine two languages?
14. Write the code in chat box to combine two languages.
15. Give me the steps to create this Query sheet form (A form used in my website)
16. How will you retrieve the values submitted by this form?
17. Why you use only RDBMS in your Website?
18. Tell me the OSI layers?
19. In which layer is HTML in OSI model.
20. Tell me basic pillars of oops technology?
21. What is the main difference between JAVA and CPP.
1. Compress the String
Moderate
32m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Write a program to do basic string compression. For a character which is consecutively repeated more than once, replace consecutive duplicate occurrences with the count of repetitions.
Example:
If a string has 'x' repeated 5 times, replace this "xxxxx" with "x5".
The string is compressed only when the repeated character count is more than 1.
Note:
Consecutive count of every character in the input string is less than or equal to 9. You are not required to print anything. It has already been taken care of. Just implement the given function and return the compressed string.
03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration30 minutes
Interview date25 Dec 2019
Coding problem1
This was an HR Round, HR asked various behavioral questions during this interview
1. Basic HR Questions
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Why did you choose Cognizant?
3. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?
4. Tell me an incident that defines that you are a lead person.
5. What if we assign you a project which is not relevant to your skills?
Problem approach
Tip 1 : Make sure your resume is up-to-date
Tip 2 : Be confident and focus on your communication
Tip 3 : Prepare for the behavioural questions
Here's your problem of the day 
Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company
Skill covered: Programming
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