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Nov 21, 2020

Anonymous employee

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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bānkura) in Nov 2020

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It was quite good. The interviewer was very friendly. You nervousness will disappear within a second after you talk to the interviewer. The experience was too good. Firstly, I had an online test and then the interview.

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About the projects. About the langauge I know(Python) How to define a dictionary(code) And how to print the values of dictionary.(code) Difference between array and linked list. Difference between tuples and list. What is namespace? Explain self join and left outer join.

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Software Developer Interview

Nov 17, 2020

Anonymous employee

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I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant in Nov 2020

Interview

The first round was a online exam in AMCAT. The second level was a technical interview. My interview went for 1hr 10mins. It was held online. The interviewer asked me to upload my resume

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Question 1

I was asked to introduce myself,asked in depth about my projects.Then they asked few OS concepts like thrashing , DBMS concepts like normalisation ,redundancy and few networks concepts. Then they gave me aptitude questions on probability , permutations and combinations. They also gave me real time scenarios to check my presence of mind.

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Software Engineer Interview

Nov 17, 2020

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Declined offer

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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Coimbatore South) in Oct 2020

Interview

First if all we attended VERBAL AND APPTITUDE ROUND through online in a platform FOLLOWED BY INTERVIEW through a app designed by them to make sure we all attend it.

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Introduction DBMS SQL difference between 2G 3G What OOPS Inheritance Project explanation

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Software Engineer Interview

Nov 21, 2020

Anonymous employee

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Easy interview

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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bānkura) in Nov 2020

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Software Developer Interview

Nov 17, 2020

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant in Nov 2020

Interview

The first round was a online exam in AMCAT. The second level was a technical interview. My interview went for 1hr 10mins. It was held online. The interviewer asked me to upload my resume

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

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Software Engineer Interview

Nov 17, 2020

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Declined offer

Neutral experience

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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Coimbatore South) in Oct 2020

Interview

First if all we attended VERBAL AND APPTITUDE ROUND through online in a platform FOLLOWED BY INTERVIEW through a app designed by them to make sure we all attend it.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Introduction DBMS SQL difference between 2G 3G What OOPS Inheritance Project explanation

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