Cognizant interview experience Real time questions & tips from candidates to crack your interview
SDE - 1
Cognizant
2 rounds | 2 Coding
problems
Selected Interview preparation journey
Preparation
Duration: 4 Months
Topics: DSA, DBMS, Puzzles, OS, System Design
Tip 1 : Never never try to cheat in online interview the interviewer will definitely get to know.
Tip 2 : Psuedo code presentation matters a lot so name Your variable properly and with proper indentation.
Tip 3 : Keep on trying even if You feel that's not the right answer so at least put that idea forward.
Tip 4 : Do Leetcode medium questions as much as possible As they are mostly asked in Interviews.
Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 7 cgpa
Tip 1 : Avoid unnecessary details on Resume
Tip 2 : Make It look clean and also keep it of one page
Interview rounds
01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date22 Oct 2021
Coding problem1
It was an aptitude + ds+ os mcq. And 1 coding question
1. Pair Sum
Easy
15m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
You are given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' and an integer 'S'. Your task is to return the list of all pairs of elements such that each sum of elements of each pair equals 'S'.
Note:
Each pair should be sorted i.e the first value should be less than or equals to the second value.
Return the list of pairs sorted in non-decreasing order of their first value. In case if two pairs have the same first value, the pair with a smaller second value should come first.
Problem approach
used the 2 pointer approach
02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date22 Oct 2021
Coding problem1
It was an technical round.
In the technical, they asked me to introduce myself and I gave the usual introduction of 1-2 minutes.
Then they asked me about my preference for programming language and I said C++.
Then they asked me to write a program for star pattern and they asked a few more questions about C++.
They also asked about my branch and asked related to that question. They asked questions on oops, dbms and os.
1. Star Pattern
Easy
0/40
Asked in companies
Print the following pattern
Pattern for N = 4
Hint
As taught in the video, you just have to modify the code so that instead of printing numbers, it should output stars ('*').
The dots represent spaces.
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