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Programmer Analyst Trainee Interview

Apr 22, 2016

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Vellore) in Sep 2012

Interview

Campus placement. The experience was good. Friendly HR. Asked some technical and some simple Shakuntala Devi type puzzles. Since it was campus interview so took 2 whole days. Next day announced the result. CTC etc was already fixed so no negotiations. Got offer letter within a month. Interview happened in October and joined on May (after finishing college)

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Program to swap two number without third variable

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Programmer Analyst Trainee Interview

Apr 22, 2016

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in Apr 2016

Interview

I was shortlisted through AMCAT and after that there were 2 interview rounds 1. Techincal 2. Hr Those who would clear the technical round were selected for hr round . both the rounds were managable and basic questions were asked

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Technical interview 1. As i was from ece background i was asked basics of cpp and a factorial program, some puzzles and some basic questions related to ece background . Hr interview 1. Being from ece y do u want to join it firm? 2. About myself

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Programmer Analyst Trainee Interview

Apr 19, 2016

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Noida)

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After written test (R S aggarwal is more than sufficient) First round was technical and second was HR No need to worry about HR round, prepare for technical In HR 80-85% get selected In resume write only those things which you already know. For freshers c/c++ or java is sufficient in resume

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Mostly the questions were from oops concept what are oops concepts (define all) virtual function, pure virtual function final,finally, finalize keywords garbage collector abstract class Basic programs- prime number, fibonacci series, palindrome

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