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      Programmer Analyst Trainee Interview

      Oct 26, 2015
      Anonymous employee
      Noida
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Noida) in Dec 2013

      Interview

      It consists of 3 rounds Written test consist of aptitude and verbal reasoning question. Technical interview : They basically ask question on one programming language of your choice,Database,Testing concept and most important your final year project HR round : Question you about their company for eg: name of CEO, headquarter, when it is founded, why CTS, why engineering, sometimes they will ask you to narrate a story. Basically they are analyzing candidate's communication skill and work ethics.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. Tell me about yourself? 2. About my hobbies. 3. What is dangling pointer? 4. Explain Circular linked list 5. Explain Quick sort and what is the complexity of merge sort 6. Difference b/w JAVA and C++ 7. Multithreading in Java 8. Database concept : Normalization(1NF, 2NF, 3NF), ACID property,Indexes, DDL, DML. 9. Testing: SDLC models, types of testing, testing life cycle 10.Explain final year project and what is your role.
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