I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Poona) in Dec 2021
Interview
Introduction:Firstly basic introduction was asked. projects: Then asked about projects. After that randomly on my core branch that is e&tc. Also asked aptitude questions as well. Then call dropped. He selected me . I think he got impressed in start only.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Jul 2021
Interview
Interview was one to one video call process with half screen is of online compiler. They generally ask basics things like sorting, searching, basics algo and DSA part. Some questions like swapping of numbers in preferred programming language and C Programing, If we choose Python then we should also have knowledge of C or C++.
Interview questions [1]
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All type of sorting and searching Some algorithms of sorting Program of searching Oops concept Difference between Python and C Programing of Swapping of 2 numbers without using third variable using C language Defination of Python and C language Define Compiler and interpreter and also mark the difference. Which type of language is python and why What is machine level language
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta) in Jul 2022
Interview
It was total 2 rounds of interview. First round was technical interview round where interviewer asked me few questions from databases, data warehouse schemas and SQL. Those questions were from easy to medium level. Some of the questions were like: 1. Difference between OLTP and OLAP systems. 2. What type of data are stored in a retail database ? 3. How date dimension table can be used as both conformed dimension table and role play based dimension table. 4. What are Top Down and Bottom Up approaches of Data Warehouse designing ? And then some basic SQL and Python programs were asked. It was around 1 hour of interview round. After 2 days I got call for HR round where I had to only show my 10 and 12th marksheets and some documents.
Interview questions [1]
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1. What are the differences between OLTP and OLAP systems ? 2. What type of data are stored in a retail database ? 3. How date dimension table can be used as both conformed dimension table and role play based dimension table. 4. What are Top Down and Bottom Up approaches of Data Warehouse designing ? 5. What is Monkey Patching in Python ? 6. Difference between AWS S3 and AWS Redshift ? 7. Name some Cloud Data Warehouse services. 8. Importance of Machine Learning in IT industry. 9. Difference between supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms. 10. Difference between Data Warehouse and Data Lake solutions. 11. Name some Cloud ETL products. 12. An Employee table was given and I was asked to find the employees who are getting 3rd highest salary from each department. 13. Find those employees whose salary is higher than average salary of sales employee. 14. What is dimensional modeling in Data Warehouse ? 15. Give examples of data modification anomalies if a database is not properly normalized. 16. Importance of denormalized tables for analytical systems.