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      Associate Software Engineer Interview

      26 Dec 2017
      Anonymous employee
      Chennai
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Dec 2017

      Interview

      I applied on campus here. There were 5 rounds. First round was an online test having aptitude and 2 coding questions. Ones who has done a single question is selected for further process. Second round was a coding round. There was 4 coding questions needs to be solved in 1 hour and 15 minutes. Third round was technical interview round. Initially they asked me about my projects. I explained to them for about half an hour. They were quite impressed with it. They also asked me some sql queries and also some programming terms. Fourth round was also a technical round. They asked my strong language (JAVA) and asked questions related to it. They also asked me some hard sql queries which I couldn't answer. Also they asked me some puzzles. Fifth round was HR round where they asked me about my personal information. Also they asked me if I want to work in a specific city. Always say no, else they will not allot you the projects if they have on different locations. Also they asked if I can work on some Saturdays (if needed), I said yes. They selected me.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How will you display the top 3 salaries of employees?
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