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Oct 16, 2023

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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Mumbai) in Jan 2019

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There were 2 technical rounds and 1 Hr round both technical is on java backend including spring boot, Microservices Technical 1 core java Technical 2 Spring Boot Mysql Jpa Hibernate Spring MVC Spring Security Spring AOP

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Singleton Class in java String immutable internal working hashmap

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Oct 15, 2023

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I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cognizant (Thiruvananthapuram)

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Interview was about data structures and algorithms. Technical Interviews: These may include multiple rounds of one-on-one or panel interviews where you'll be asked to solve coding problems, design systems, and discuss technical concepts.

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Data structures and algorithms questions

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Oct 12, 2023

Anonymous employee

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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant

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The first round will be a technical round asking questions on the technical knowledge, skills and cloud technologies. Once technical round is cleared will be called for hr discussion post which offer would be released.

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Question 1

1. Write python code to get common suffix in a list of strings. 2. Questions on object oriented concepts and inheritance 3. Write a sql query to get top movies in revenue for a year with respective to a tagged category (ex :action,comedy,Kids etc).

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