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      Programmer Analyst Trainee Interview

      15 Apr 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant in Oct 2021

      Interview

      The recruitment process started with a Pre-placement talk. Here we were told that we had to attempt a Skill-based Assessment & the test scores will decide the selection of the three mentioned roles (Genc, Elevate, or Next).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tell me about yourself. Explain a little bit about anyone project mentioned in the resume. [ I explained about my desktop application project ] What is function overloading and can we pass primitive type and similar wrapper class to implement function overloading [ He also gave me a snippet and asked its output ] Difference between function overloading and function overriding Why do we use keyword static in java? What do you mean by autoboxing [ I haven’t heard this term so he explained to me about it with proper examples ] What is abstraction and how to achieve it? What is the difference between abstract class & Interface? What is a Functional Interface? Difference between final, finally and finalize What are the different types of exceptions in java? [ Checked & Unchecked ] What happens when we put a return statement in a try block, Will the final block be executed or not? He asked me whether i know about collections then I said common data structures and algorithms I know but not in too deep. What is HashMAP and difference between HashSet & Hashmap
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