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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 8 Oct 2022

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 

(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

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

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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:
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 

(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

Developer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Fgh Vbbde

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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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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Developer Interview Questions & Answers

TCS user image Anonymous

posted on 14 Feb 2025

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

I was interviewed in Jan 2025.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Simple aptitude test

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Medium python code and that was easy to understand

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. About my skill ,data science, AI, ML , python
Round 4 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. About my biodata and simple conversation
  • Q2. Did some verification

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just sharpen up your skill
Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Circuit breaker design pattern
  • Ans. 

    Circuit breaker design pattern is used to prevent a system from repeatedly trying to execute an operation that is likely to fail.

    • Circuit breaker monitors the number of failures and trips when a threshold is reached.

    • It can be reset after a certain period of time to check if the operation is successful again.

    • Helps in improving system stability and resilience by handling failures gracefully.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. SQL coding, write a query to get second max salary

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 2) SQL question, write the second max salary.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

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?

Some of the top questions asked at the Cognizant Developer interview -

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

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Cognizant Developer Interview Process

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