Cogent E Services Associate Interview Questions and Answers

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Round: Test
Experience: It included quantitative ability questions and a few subjective coding type questions. Nothing known about cutoff as almost major chunk of people appearing for the test were called for the interview.The criteria for test is mainly on CGs and at timesdepartments too.There are rare companies like BCG, DB who actually refer your resumes for interviews without tests.
Duration: 1 hour minute

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 2 rounds of interview were there – first the technical interview which included questions on your resume. Detailed questionson every point you have mentioned, cross checking whether you really know aboutit at times asking you for examples. No speed math was included. The interview was purely on all the stuff mentioned in the resume.
Tips: Study the resume thorough with every point mentioned. Questionswere asked about things externally related (not in the resume) to stuffmentioned as part of skills. So while exaggerating any point be aware of everyfact about it.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR interview included personal level questions like tell me about yourself, where you hail from, positives, negatives, why cognizant, why non-core, how do you see yourself after 2-3 years etc.The second stage may depend upon GDs or interviews. In this case it was purely one –on-one interview in both rounds.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Mentioned about R a tool used in analytics and was talked about linear and logistic regression. Questions about Big Data Analysis and hadoop etc were asked.

General Tips: Its better to start from August solving CAT papers which helps a lot. Purefin certifications do help for companies like DB, Futures First, Nomura and all. Read only quantitative and a few previous years’ case studies (googled as per the company). Read one to two cases everyday and discussions related to them on the internet and write relevant points in some notebook at times searching for terms or phrases. Read the newspaper daily be it times or even the economic times – know whats happening in the world. They may ask you questions like – whats happening in the world. Be sure to answer them with what they would like to hear rather than what you would like to talk on.The situation is better for non core companies because majority of them don’t see the word department while recruiting from iit. Both for non-core or core: give your best for every round andeven if you don’t get selected for first round you can try to push your resumein on spot interview calls for companies you really want to be part of.Although it isn’t fair play but that’s what happens from Placemnt season day 2.And if the rest do it there's no point regretting than to be a part of it.
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Test
Experience: The testincluded quantitative ability questionsand a few subjective coding type questions. Nothing known about cutoff as almost major chunk of people appearing for the test were called for the interview.
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Technical interview included questions on your resume. Detailed questions on every point you have mentioned, cross checking whether you really know about it at times asking you for examples. No speed math was included. The interview was purely on all the stuff mentioned in the resume.
Tips: Suggestion: study the resume thorough with every point mentioned. Questions were asked about things externally related (not in the resume) to stuff mentioned as part of skills. So while exaggerating any point be aware of every fact about it.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR interview included personal level questions like tell me about yourself, where you hail from, positives, negatives, why cognizant, why non-core, how do you see yourself after 2-3 years etc.

College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Test
Experience: Two papers were held for aptitude and were easy enough for a person with good logical and reasoning skills.In the coding section, programs like string reversing were asked. easy enough for a good programmer to bang on!If you have a superb grammar and vocabulary, this section will not be hard enough to fry your brains consequently.
Tips: A good presence of mind and  apt time management will help in scoring well.
Duration: 180 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This was a 10 minute round, where few questions on the previous tests held, coding and questions on aero courses were asked.
Tips: Knowledge definitely pays!

Round: HR Interview
Experience: A person should be witty enough in answering questions asked. A great presence of mind will act as a bonus.

General Tips: Right knowledge and understanding regarding coding or any programming language that you are confident enough about will be of great help.
Skill Tips: If the basics of programming are very fluent,then zero problem will arise in encoding or decoding programs.Extra curricular activities weren't given much of any importance.Going through case studies given on the company's website will increment your knowledge.
Skills: Coding, Aptitude
College Name: IIT MADRAS
Motivation: Presence of mind, knowledge and fine observation are the three key ingredients that will make you pass!
Funny Moments: I was sincere enough and on my best behavior, to cause any nerdy moments!

Round: Test
Experience: Questions were based on basic maths and english but time duration as per level of questions was very less. I was hardly able to attempt 90 question.
Tips: Firstly attempt questions from the topics in which you are more comfortable. Don't spend much time in thinking.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 120

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: As I am from statistics background ao they asked me questions from regression and inference in depth. Rest all question were from basic stats. And yes they ask question from everything what is there in your resume.
Tips: Be ready for question from everything what is there in your resume and prepare them in advance.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was easy and hardly last for 10 min
Tips: Be confident on whatever you speak and prepare for general HR questions in advance.

College Name: IIT BOMBAY

Round: Test
Experience: Questions were simple but demanded faster solving ability especially the Quantitative ability section.
Tips: Solve every bit of R.S.Aggarwal for Aptitude problems. www.indiabix.com is a good site to solve questions from all the sections.
Duration: 90 minutes

Round: Interview
Experience: Started with self description to explaining what projects I was involved in. Talked about my role in the project. Then answered questions from C++ programming language and then wrote the program that the interviewer gave me to do.
Tips: Be Confident. Have the problem solving & "Yes I can Do" attitude. Go with a open mind. Listen to the interviewer carefully. Do not stammer. Keep yourself calm and cool. Be honest.

Round: Interview
Experience: Faced normal questions
Tips: Be confident & keep smiling. Keep track of your body language. Be fluent in speaking English.

General Tips: Be confident and a "can do" attitude will help you grab the job.
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Skills: Communication Skill, Proficiency in English, Basic Computer Progamming Knowledge, Learning ability, Aptitude
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: Fifty people appeared for the test out of which sixteen were shortlisted.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: How would you promote a newly launched product? What marketing strategies would you use? They asked very simple case studies.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Test was based on data analysis, mainly maths. The interview was to see how much 'C' and probability you know.
Tips: Customized preparation is must along with good CGPA.

Skill Tips: Work details about your internship helps!
Skills: General knowledge, Technical knowledge
College Name: IIT Madras