Cognizant Genc Next Interview Experience 2020(Virtual)

Overview of the interview process at cognizant: 

Cognizant offers two packages- GenC (Base package) and GenC Next(Higher Package). 

Round 1: Online coding round conducted on AMCAT, which consists of 3 sections:

• Section 1-Aptitude questions: (level: easy to medium).
• Section 2-Code debugging: (7 questions): Language selection option available at the start, allowed languages where c++, Java, and Python. Also, the time for this section was  20 minutes, so it should be done with good speed and accuracy.
• Section 3- Essay Writing: Need to write an essay on a given topic in 150-200 words. The topic I got,’ Turning Points in your college life.’

Also, 25 out of 600 students(our college has huge strength), were selected for round 2, the rest were shifted for GenC interview.

Round 2 (Coding Round): The test was conducted on the AMCAT platform, which had 4 coding questions (2 easy, 2 medium ): 

• Question-1: Given an array of 0’s and 1’s, transform(change 0 to 1 and vice-versa) the bit if the adjacent numbers are either, both 0’s or both 1’s.(Note: The left adjacent for the first index is 0 and the right adjacent for the last index is 0) (Difficult – easy)
• Question -2: Find Hamming Distance. (Difficulty – easy)(Link: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/hamming-distance-between-two-integers/)
• Question-3: Dp Question – Given a 2D matrix, find the maximum product sub-matrix with the first index(meaning: submatrix which always consists of the element at index (i=0,j=0) ) ). Need to print the maximum product. (Difficult- Medium)
• Question-4: Graph Question –  Find the Number of Islands. (Link: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-number-of-islands/)

9 out of 25, were selected for round 3, the rest were shifted for GenC interview.

Round 3 (Technical +Hr Round): 

• Interviewer: Introduce Yourself
• Me: Gave a brief intro.
• Interviewer: Why you choose CSE?
• Me: Told my interest in CSE.
• Interviewer: Tell me about your strengths and weaknesses in brief.
• Me: Answered
• Interviewer: Which projects have you done? (asked me about the project mentioned in my resume).
• Me:  Gave an explanation of my android projects.
• Interviewer: Why you shifted from Android Development to flutter? (mentioned in resume)
• Me: Told the benefits of making apps in a flutter.
• Interviewer: What are transitions, do you think are required for a transformation from college to the corporate sector?
• Me: Answered
• Interviewer: What are the modern/ the latest technologies that are trending in IT?
• Me: ML, DataScience, IOT, BlockChain, etc.
• Interviewer: Can you give a real-life example of where Machine Learning is used.
• Me: Gave an example of a social media website.
• Interviewer: Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a co-worker who wasn’t doing his / her fair share of the work. What did you do and what was the outcome?
• Me: Answered.
• Interviewer: What are the skills required for an IT Professional?
• Me: Answered
• Interviewer: Do you have any questions?
• Me: Asked 2 questions
• Interviewer: Answered.

PS: Interview results were declared after 1 month and 7 out of 9 got selected for GenC Next, and I was one among 7 🙂