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Programmer Analyst Trainee Interview

Jun 4, 2015

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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderabad) in Aug 2011

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I was selected through campus placements. The interview process was really cool. First round we had written in which they asked general aptitude kind of questions. Second round we had Technical discussion where he mainly focuses on how good you are expressing the answer.

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Question 1

1. write a query to get second highest salary 2. factorial of a number using recursive way

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Programmer Analyst Trainee Interview

May 25, 2015

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Declined offer

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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Rānchī) in Oct 2013

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There were total of 3 rounds.After the written examination a technical round took place where questions ranging from ios to unix were asked.After that in hr round questions were quite easy and were reated to my background and schooling.

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Question 1

Which is your favorite movie and why?

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Programmer Analyst Trainee Interview

May 21, 2015

Anonymous employee

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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Jan 2011

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Very good.Interviewer was having sound knowledge on the concepts.He was very good in explanations.I was pretty nervous in the beginning, but he calmed me down.AStarted with basic questions and then difficulty level increased.

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Bacics of Java,Datawarehouse,Unix

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