Cognizant Interview Experience for Programmer Analyst Trainee

Round 1(Aptitude Test): Take From Home 

For Round 1-Basic Questions from all chapters of Aptitude (mostly Arithmetic questions ). I prepared from  Faceprep. For Logical Reasoning and English AMCAT Practice Papers are enough. Aptitude test was on Superset Platform. Questions were easy to moderate level.

Round 2(Technical Interview – Virtual): For Round 2-One needs to have a good grasp on whatever  written on their resume. 

• I had prepared my final project very well so that I can answer question related to that project 
• My Interviewer asked me  2 programming question, 2 SQL query and 5-6 aptitude and reasoning question. 
• Interview was around 40-45 min. 

Question asked by Him:-

Programming Question:-

1. Write a program to count number of characters in a string.
2. Write a program to print fibonacci series.

SQL queries:-

1. Write a query to print the first characters of FIRST_NAME from student table.
2. It was related to first query to print last character.

Aptitude and Reasoning: Questions were based easy and mainly based on percentage, average and ratio. Reasoning question was based on calendar.

• For Java and C++ -You can refer to Geeks for Geeks. Very Good Explanations are given. Go through some programming Interview Questions on Google and YouTube. You will get a good bunch of questions and that is more than enough.
• Be clear about the detail explanation of your Final Year Project of College.
• In the last interviewer mentioned that he is very happy with my interview.

Round 3(HR): It was a type of document verification round. 

Questions she asked:-

1. Show me your govt. Id card (PAN, AADHAAR ) and 10th Marksheet.
2. Vaccination status.
3. Preferred work location 

Overall It was a great experience. 

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