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: 2 months
Topics: Electronics basics, C language , Data structure, OOPS, Projects
Tip 1 : Do aptitude from indiabix. Go through your basics. At least one language u know. Learn about your branch basics. Know concept of data structure and oops.
Tip 2 : prepare your final project well.
Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Above 6 cgpa
Tip 1 : the skills you know very well mention in resume
Tip 2 : mention project in resume
Interview rounds
01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration2 hours
Interview date19 Oct 2020
Coding problem1
In the 1st round
Aptitude
Reasoning
English
Automata fix( code debug)
Timing in morning
Environment is good
Interviewer was very cool and interactive
1. Encode the Message
Easy
18m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
You have been given a text message. You have to return the Run-length Encoding of the given message.
Run-length encoding is a fast and simple method of encoding strings. The basic idea is to represent repeated successive characters as the character and a single count. For example, the string "aaaabbbccdaa" would be encoded as "a4b3c2d1a2".
02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration30 minutes
Interview date22 Nov 2020
Coding problem1
This is interview round
Ques from basic electronics
C language
1. Print Name and age
Easy
0/40
Asked in companies
Create a class named Person with a string variable 'name' and an integer variable 'age,' such that these variables are not accessible outside the class and implement a way to initialize the variables and print the variables.
Functions:
1.setValue- that sets the variables value.
2.getValue- that prints the variables value.
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