Cognizant GenC Next Interview Experience 2022

Round 1: Resume shortlisting from Superset portal 

Round 2: Skill assessment

Total 5 modules 

First, 2 modules :

• MCQ related to java, HTML, SQL, and the basics of programming each was having 15 and 10 questions.  

3rd and 4th Module: 

There were 4 programming questions.

• Level: hard and intermediate
• Time 50 min for each module 

5th module: 

2 SQL queries were given 

• Level: intermediate to high 

Round 3: Technical round 

I had my genc Next interview for the Advanced Java Developer profile.

• Introduce yourself
• What is your core skill(I said java)
• What do you know about java
• What is oops concept
• How to achieve multiple inheritances in java
• Difference between interface and abstraction
• What are method overloading and method overriding?
• Super keyword
• exception handling in java
• Throw throws keywords
• Finally, block
• This keyword
• What is a wrapper class
• what is the collection in java
• What’s the latest java framework

SQL

• What do you know about SQL?
• What are Dml DDL command’s
• Constraints in SQL
• What is a subquery
• Then they gave me one problem statement and asked me to write a query.

Programs

• Check Armstrong number
• Simple addition program and then they asked me to do some modifications using functions and inheritance.

Additionally

• Memory management in java and cpp
• What is serialization
• What is a deadlock in java

I was lucky because my interviewer didn’t ask about the project but lots of students were asked about the project and half of their interviews were based on their project.