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Cognizant Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 29 Aug 2024

Cognizant Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Experiences

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Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 29 Aug 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Group Discussion 

Nothing much
Just handling peer pressure

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain how dns works
    • Add your answer
  • Q2. Explain Linux boot process
    • Add your answer

Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 30 Apr 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Apr 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Moderate level, basic concepts in aptitude

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me about your self Some small programs like prime number, Method overloading and overriding
    • Add your answer
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me about your self What are your goals Why cognizant
    • Add your answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident

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Q4. Write a program to find a number that is palindrome or not ?
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Q5. Basic print function of python and OOPS concept explanation
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Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

user image Jasmine A

posted on 20 Sep 2023

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Sep 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Problem solving communication round

Round 3 - HR 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Introduce yourself Willing to relocate
    • Add your answer
  • Q2. Any questions to ask me
    • Add your answer
  • Q3. What sets you apart from others
    • Add your answer
  • Q4. Palindrome program and it's explanation
  • Ans. 

    A palindrome program is a program that checks if a given string reads the same forwards and backwards.

    • Check if the string is equal to its reverse

    • Ignore spaces and punctuation when checking for palindrome

    • Examples: 'racecar', 'madam', 'A man, a plan, a canal, Panama'

    • Answered by AI
    Add your answer
  • Q5. That's all and finished it
    • Add your answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Cognizant Assistant System Engineer Trainee interview:
  • C
  • C++
  • Python

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Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

Infosys user image Anonymous

posted on 8 Nov 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Simple interest,puzzles,psuedocodes

Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

HCLTech user image Anonymous

posted on 5 Jun 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself?
    • Add your answer
  • Q2. Why do you want to join this company?
    • Add your answer

Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

Wipro user image Anonymous

posted on 14 Jan 2023

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Jan 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Basics numerical,probablity,passage reading, quants

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Array and string operations using java,python

Round 3 - HR 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Could you please introduce user self?
    • Add your answer
  • Q2. Why do you want to join the organization?
    • Add your answer
  • Q3. What are your strength and weaknesses?
    • Add your answer
  • Q4. Which offer will you choose? google or wipro?
    • Add your answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare basics of quants,probability,Percentage related problems. For coding problems practice java and python . For Hr round prepare basic hr questions.

Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

TCS user image Anonymous

posted on 9 Sep 2020

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Sep 2019. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Basic questions related to my resume on the projects that I did and the technology that I used, I was asked about DBMS basic questions like joins, their types, foreign key, normalisation. Rest of the quest...
    • Add your answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Go through your resume well and prepare questions from your resume and be thorough with the projects and be confident. You will easily crack the interview

Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

Infosys user image Anonymous

posted on 4 Aug 2022

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Feb 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Simple common Questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Introduce yourself About projects done Simple programa
    • Add your answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep your resume true to yourself as most of th questios will be asked from your resume

Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

TCS user image Anonymous

posted on 7 Nov 2019

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in May 2019. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

  • Q1. Oops concept
    • Add your answer
  • Q2. Logic Gates and truth table
    • Add your answer
  • Q3. Gsm and cdma
    • Add your answer
  • Q4. Java concepts
    • Add your answer
  • Q5. Fibonacci series program
  • Ans. 

    Fibonacci series is a sequence of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones.

    • The first two numbers of the series are always 0 and 1

    • The next number is the sum of the previous two numbers

    • The series continues until the desired number of terms is reached

    • Example: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181

    • Answered by AI
    Add your answer
  • Q6. Abstract class
    • Add your answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Do not hesitate to answer anything. There are general awareness question also regarding technology

Skills evaluated in this interview

Assistant System Engineer Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

Infosys user image Anonymous

posted on 23 Sep 2022

I was interviewed before Sep 2021.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about your project
    • Add your answer
  • Q2. Tell me about your hobbies
    • Add your answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - As a fresher they expect you to have decent communication skills and you need to show enthusiasm to learn new skills
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