Cognizant Interview Experience

He started with Tell me Something about you. The following Technical questions were asked:

• Tell me About Your Minor and Major projects.
• Can You Elaborate Major Project?
• What are illegal services.in/ (A Personal Website created by me.)
• Did You host alone?
• Tell me the entire process of Web Hosting.
• Why don’t you host your website on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure?
• Are you aware of Python?
• What is Django?
• Enlist the Technologies used in this website.
• What is Bootstrap?
• What is PHP and MySQL?
• Write Syntax to update column properties.
• How will you combine two languages?
• Write the code in the chat box to combine two languages.
• Give me the steps to create this Query sheet form (A form used on my website)
• How will you retrieve the values submitted by this form?
• Why do you use only RDBMS in your Website?
• Tell me the OSI layers.
• In which layer is HTML in OSI model.
• Tell me basic pillars of oops technology?
• What is the main difference between JAVA and CPP.

He gave me a JAVA code and ask me to write output of particular code.(Code is basically on inherited classes)

• Explain me the logic behind your output.

Then he gave me two aptitude questions and ask me to solve them within 3 minutes.

Aptitude questions:

1. In a bank there are three types of coins, 1rupee, 3rupee, 5rupee in the ratio of 3:4:5 respectively. The total value is Rs 1450. The total number of coins is?
2. A does a work in 12 days and B does the same work in 18 days. In how many days they together will do the same work?

Then He asked me following HR questions:

• Tell me about yourself.
• Why you choose Cognizant?
• Where do you see yourself in next 5 years.
• Tell me an incident which defines that you are a lead person.
• What if we assign you a project which is not relevant to your skills

These are some points which defines why were I selected:

• I was well prepared for Aptitude.
• I am good in coding which helps to solve automata questions and one JAVA code asked in interview.
• I am well versed in basics of core subjects like DBMS, DS, OOPS, JAVA, CPP, Web Technology.
• I have full knowledge of my projects and internships.