I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Nov 2024
Interview
The interview projects for the **Programmer Analyst** role at Cognizant were engaging and well-structured. One of the tasks involved writing a program to find the **second largest element in an array**, which tested my coding skills and problem-solving approach. Another challenge required me to write SQL queries, including performing various **table joins**, to demonstrate my understanding of relational databases. I also tackled a dynamic programming problem, implementing **Kadane’s Algorithm** to find the subarray with the maximum sum. Overall, the projects allowed me to showcase my technical abilities, problem-solving skills, and ability to optimize solutions effectively.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you join two tables in SQL? What are the types of joins?
Two interviews with coding test and and aptitute test , pretty easy , aske about projects done and java oops questions also sql question , position was full stack developer
We had many rounds like 3 rounds before interview and interview was quite good. I got selected into cognizant as and programmer analyst trainee. I did not focus much on java, so due to that i Got 4 lpa
They asked very basic questions of reversing a string java basics and sql introduction and asked some data structures concepts finally few hr questions so on finally interviewer looks very strict interview got rejected