Candidate-Experiences
At first the cognizant people came to the college,gave the pre placement talk.Then started the aptitude exam.
There was two part in the paper ----1st part is Verbal and 2nd part is Analytical.
Question was not so easy.You should practice properly specially the verbal part.
322 selected from 340 in the aptitude test .
After a long wait my name was called for the interview.I was lil' bit tensed because that was the 1st interview in my life.Hopefully my HR was a very good person after entering in the interview room-HR:Sit downme:thank you sir.HR:He asked for the CV and look it properly.asked some common question from CV about hobby,achievements
me: answered properly
HR:Then he asked except this(which was written in my hobby) what can u do?
me: bla bla
HR:which is your preferable language
me:java
HR:what are the properties of oops
me:told
HR:gave me a situation about inheritence (cat and dog has some properties,implement this in inheritence) and then he asked me to write the code
me:properly done
HR:what is polymorphism?then overloading,overriding,run time polymorphism
me:told
HR:then he asked do u know non linear datastructure?
me:told about tree,different types of trees
HR:asked about level,height,node,edge,b tree,b+ tree
me:told
HR:told me to do a quick sort of some no.s
me:I just told the algorithm,i didn't do the sorting.
HR:what is the best and worst case of bubble sort
me:told ,he looked satisfied
HR:Tell me something about your project
me:told
HR:so at the back end u r going to use dbms?
me:yes
HR:what is candidate key,unique key?
me:told
HR:give me a table asked me to write a query (it was pretty tough)
me:I wrote a code and show him
HR:This is not my question told the question properly
me:again write the code and show him ,he looked satisfied
HR:then he asked me why cognizant?
me: told
HR:r u rellocating?
me:yes
HR:souvik,do u have any query about cognizant?
me:asked 4 questions(prepare some questions)
HR:gave the answers.
Don't be nervous.Whatever comes in your mind just tell,don't miss a single question.Almost every HR is a nice person.
Always use cognizant,don't use CTS.
I'm selected for cognizant.
I'm going to join in the next year.
