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Developer Associate
Cognizant
3 rounds | 3 Coding
problems
Selected Interview preparation journey
Preparation
Duration: 1.5 months
Topics: Data structures, CCNA, OOPS, C++, C programming, Python
Tip 1: Be through with your resume first
Tip 2: Know your project thoroughly
Tip 3: Be strong with the basics of your subjects
Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 7 CGPA
Tip 1 : Mention your projects
Tip 2 : Put which you are confident enough
Interview rounds
01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 minutes
Interview date2 Oct 2020
Coding problem0
1.Logical ability
2.Verbal Ability
3.Quantitative Aptitude
4.Automata Fix
02
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration45 minutes
Interview date11 Nov 2020
Coding problem2
1. Digital Electronics Questions
What is repeater?
What are flip flops?
What are latches?
What is Stack pointer What are Diodes,Sampling,Encoder, Decoder, Registers,Accumulator ?
2. Merge Sort
Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Given a sequence of numbers ‘ARR’. Your task is to return a sorted sequence of ‘ARR’ in non-descending order with help of the merge sort algorithm.
Example :
Merge Sort Algorithm -
Merge sort is a Divide and Conquer based Algorithm. It divides the input array into two-parts, until the size of the input array is not ‘1’. In the return part, it will merge two sorted arrays a return a whole merged sorted array.
The above illustrates shows how merge sort works.
Note :
It is compulsory to use the ‘Merge Sort’ algorithm.
03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration30 minutes
Interview date14 Nov 2020
Coding problem1
1. Basic HR Questions
Some basic HR Questions were asked like :
1) Why cognizant ?
2) Are you comfortable to relocate?
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