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Cognizant Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 21 Mar 2024

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Developer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 21 Mar 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basics of any programming language required
Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Good communication required

Developer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 28 Nov 2023

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
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 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain about Data pages
  • Ans. 

    Data pages are used to store and retrieve data in a database.

    • Data pages are physical units of storage in a database.

    • They contain a fixed number of data records or rows.

    • Data pages are organized in a hierarchical structure, such as a B-tree.

    • They are accessed by the database engine to read or write data efficiently.

    • Examples of data pages include index pages, data heap pages, and data overflow pages.

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic salary discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident

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Developer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 8 Oct 2022

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basics concepts on technology.
  • Q2. Broadcast join ,repatriation,coalesce scala-word count
Round 3 - Coding Test 

Basic coding like plaindrome,word count program ,brodcasat joint in scala and sql-second height salary .group functions analytical functions,joins.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Have good basic skills and coding knowledge and brief explanation on project worked on previously.

Developer Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 10 Oct 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Sep 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. Asked to introduce myself
  • Q2. Asked to solve one code to print the matching characters of two strings
  • Q3. Asked one logical question
  • Q4. Asked on my project

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident and if know any answer don't lie say anything with confidence

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 (9)

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 (9)

Developer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 3 Apr 2021

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. What will you do when your teammate is lag on the given task

Developer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 17 Sep 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Sep 2020. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Based on our resume and project

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep strong grip on any one subject so that if they can ask u u are fav subject say everything in grip so that they feel confirm and project is main

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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. EXPLAINTRANSFORMER STAGE
  • Ans. 

    Transformer stage is a processing stage in IBM InfoSphere DataStage used for data transformation.

    • Used for transforming data from source to target in DataStage

    • Can perform various operations like filtering, aggregating, joining, etc.

    • Supports parallel processing for efficient data transformation

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. CDC STAGE EXPALIN HOW TO DO IT
Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. CTCHOW MUCH YOU EXPECT??

Skills evaluated in this interview

Developer Interview Questions & Answers

IBM user image Anonymous

posted on 19 Jun 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Coding test followed by technical discussion

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Governer limits and usage
  • Ans. 

    Governer limits are restrictions set by Salesforce to prevent code from consuming too much resources.

    • Governer limits are restrictions set by Salesforce to ensure efficient use of resources.

    • They include limits on CPU time, heap size, SOQL queries, DML statements, etc.

    • Exceeding these limits can result in exceptions like 'Apex CPU time limit exceeded'.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Integration related questions

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Walk-in

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. In which development to your company to benefit to workers, company and public
  • Q2. Try some new trick and ideas

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I think in this time digress are not important, the skills are important

Developer Interview Questions & Answers

NTT Data user image Tushar Kulkarni

posted on 24 May 2024

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Expalin what is ABAP dictionary Events in ALV report Have you worked on oops abp
  • Ans. 

    ABAP Dictionary is a central repository for data definitions used in SAP applications. ALV report events are user actions in ALV grid. OOPs ABAP is object-oriented programming in ABAP.

    • ABAP Dictionary is used to define and manage data definitions in SAP applications

    • ALV report events include user actions like clicking on a row or column header

    • OOPs ABAP allows for object-oriented programming concepts like classes and inhe

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Main reason to change current organization

Skills evaluated in this interview

Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Developer interview?
Cognizant interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process are Technical, Resume Shortlist and HR.
How to prepare for Cognizant Developer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Cognizant. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Cognizant expect are Java, Javascript, SQL, Python and Presales.
What are the top questions asked in Cognizant Developer interview?

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  3. broadcast join ,repatriation,coalesce scala-word co...read more

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