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      Unix Developer Interview

      Jun 13, 2010
      Anonymous employee
      City of London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (City of London, England) in May 2010

      Interview

      At first phone interview , quite simply questions : UNIX - signals , process creation (fork , exec etc..) , Perl data types , Shell input variables .. easy, Then technical 1:1 interview : a lot of technologies but easy basic questions : NFS, UNIX system basics: ie: signals , file stystem users permissions, threads , redundancy(system availability), firewalls , C,C++(inheritance, polymorphisms , vtable ..),,Java, Perl,CMS ... and so on... basic questions. Unfortunately there was not questions about stack , heap , registers and pointers and pointers to functions.... etc..... :))))

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How will debug segmentation fault in java and C program..
      1 Answer