This Role is basically for 1.5-2 year Experience. Applied through LinkedIn after working in Cognizant for 1.9 years.
Round 1: Written Exam
It consists of 6 Sections.
- Section 1 was Java Coding (1 Question).
- Section 2 was Core Java MCQ and Output-Based Questions(10 Questions).
- Section 3 was Spring Boot MCQs (10 Questions).
- Section 4 was Problem-solving consisting of Time Complexity and DSA questions (10 Questions).
- Section 5 was AI evaluation Speaking. Here, you have to speak for 2-3 min for the given topic.
- Section 6 was AI evaluation Writing. Here, you have to write about a topic in 300 words.
Out of 100, you have to score 70 minimum to qualify.
Suggestion: Try to solve medium and easy type Questions on GeeksForGeeks and also go through the output-based Questions.
Round 2: Technical Round 1
Those who got selected in Round 1 were called for this round.
- The interviewer introduced himself and asked for my introduction.
- He asked about previous Work Experience and the types of projects I have worked on.
- Then He started the Technical Questions and asked about JAVA.
- What is OOPS in Java with real-life examples?
- Use of static Keywords in Method, variable, and class.
- Why String is Immutable.
- Types of Constructors.
- Difference between Stack and Heap.
- What is Constructor Overloading?
- What is Multi-Threading and what are the different ways to implement it.
- What is Join in Multi-Threading?
- what are Synchronized Blocks?
- Garbage Collections in Java.
- What are modifications in JAVA 8.
- What is Functional Interface?
- What are Predicates and method referencing?
- Life Cycle Methods in Spring Boot.
- what are Autowiring and different ways to implement it?
- Different Annotation like @Configuration, @ComponentScan ,@component, @controllers etc.
- Spring Boot vs Spring MVC.
- Http Methods and use of it.
He was checking the basics of JAVA and Spring Boot.
Round 3: Technical Round 2
Those who cleared Round 2 were called for this round.
- It was basically a Coding round. 2 coding question was asked.
- To find the square root of a number in O(logn) Complexity. It was based on a binary search.
- 2 Question he asked to write the basic API to check the knowledge of spring boot. So I did one POST api.
Round 4: HR Round
- She Asked about my Introduction.
- Explained about the projects what we do and what are technologies the work on.
- Preference for location.
Verdict: Selected but didn’t accept the offer. I already got an offer from Oracle after a week.