Cogniscient Business Solutions Software Engineer Trainee Interview Questions and Answers

Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Round duration - 20 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Q1. 
Pair Sum Problem Statement
You are given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' and an integer 'S'. Your task is to find and return a list of all pairs of elements where each sum of a pair equals 'S'.
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Given an array and a target sum, find pairs of elements that add up to the target sum.
• Iterate through the array and for each element, check if the complement (target sum - current element) exists in a hash set.

• If the complement exists, add the pair to the result list. Otherwise, add the current element to the hash set.

• Sort the pairs based on the first element and then the second element to meet the required output form
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Round duration - 20 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Round duration - 40 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

Q1. Can you provide an example of how to use pointers in C/C++ and discuss different concepts related to them?
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Pointers in C/C++ are variables that store memory addresses. They are used to manipulate memory directly and improve performance.
• Pointers are declared using an asterisk (*) before the variable name.

• Pointers can be used to dynamically allocate memory using functions like malloc() and free().

• Pointers can be used to pass variables by reference to functions.
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If you are a fresher , then this is for you else almost no coding test for experienced candidates.

Q1. Javascript basics, Angular react general questions depends upon profile.
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Q1. They asked general questions related to some hectic situation faced in previous company / project..
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It was ok. I was not able to solve all the questions.

Q1. Remove the last element from a linkedlist
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To remove the last element from a linked list, iterate to the second last node and update its next pointer to null.
• Iterate through the linked list to find the second last node

• Update the next pointer of the second last node to null
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Q2. Some basic questions on oops dbms and os
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The test was in hackerrank platform, it was moderate level.

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Q1. Tell me about your self
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I am a passionate software engineer with 5 years of experience in developing web applications using various technologies.
• 5 years of experience in software development

• Proficient in developing web applications

• Skilled in using various technologies

• Passionate about software engineering
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Q2. Projects and intership
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Q1. DS Algo, Backend and DB
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Q2. Stack(DS) question and DB based questions
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Q3. Scaling (Horizontal, Vertical) with use cases
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Scaling refers to increasing capacity of a system. Horizontal scaling adds more machines, while vertical scaling adds more resources to a machine.
• Horizontal scaling involves adding more machines to a system to increase capacity

• Vertical scaling involves adding more resources to a machine to increase capacity

• Use cases for horizontal scaling include handling increased traffic or adding redundancy

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