Cognizant Digital Nurture 4.0 Interview Experience

After the training we had 10 days of gap and then we had our interviews .My interview slot was from 9 am to 6 pm and we will be called randomly anytime in that given slot ...

After the training we had 10 days of gap and then we had our interviews . My interview slot was from 9 am to 6 pm and we will be called randomly anytime in that given slot . We will be told to open our superset accounts and will be told to be online and when we get the interview call we have to accept it . There will be two interviewers ( one in person and another interviewer will be joined in the superset interview call ) Coming to the interview ... both the HR interview and technical interview has been conducted at the same time ( not sure if this is same for everyone because from what i have read online the HR and technical interviews were conducted at different days for few) . The interviewer first asked for my self intro ( keep it simple by just telling them your name , your skills and your projects ) 1 . Did you give any bribes to anyone in this company for this job? (I don't even know if that's a reasonable question for a student but yeah anyways.. ) 2. Why Cognizant? Do your own research about the company before the interview and try to give a good straight to the point answer so that you can make a good impression by letting them know that you are not just giving this interview because of the reputation of the company . 3. Can you tell about Java features? 4. Datatypes in Java? 5. What are wrapper classes? 6. What is Autoboxing and Unboxing? 7. Program : Take two ArrayLists , add elements to the ArrayLists , add the common elements in both of the ArrayLists to another ArrayList and print it . 8. What happens if we write the main class as "private class Main" instead of public ? Will it run ? If not , why ? 9. Can you tell the difference between "private" and "default" ? 10. Difference between abstract classes and an interface ? 11. Difference between "==" and ".equals( )" ? 12. What does "Scanner" do ? 13. How to do a delete operation in SQL ? 14. Can you tell some Object methods ? 15. Can you explain any Design pattern ? 16. What is Hibernate used for ? 17. Where are String Literals stored in Java ? 18. Can you relocate to any location given for you ? Do you have any preferred locations ? 19. Since we will be working with foreign clients there is a chance where you will have to work at different time standards .. most of the time it does not happen but can you work if you have to ? My interview ended here and i might have missed few questions . I have answered 80% of the questions and I am waiting for the results . Tips for my dear fellow students : Guys from whatever experience I got from this interview I can give you some little suggestions that may help you a lot . Interviewers don't look for students who know the basics of deep concepts . They look for the students who have deep knowledge in basic concepts . Listen guys .. we are freshers and it's ok to not know everything and its ok if you have low CGPA than other students who got selected for this interview . You don't have to have more knowledge than all of the students who got selected . Your CGPA and all of that only matters for the shortlisting and for the interview you just have to be thorough with the things you have learnt . So search of most asked interview questions online and test yourself how many you can answer . If you are unable to answer any of them . Just learn them now!! Its ok , its never too late . Open your book , search for most asked basic Java interview questions , write the answers in your book , learn them and practice the programs well . DO NOT SHOW THE INTERVIEWER THAT YOU ARE TENSED !! Be confident .. Because you and I know that you have given your everything for this interview and that you have prepared well . So why get tensed ? YOU GOT THIS ! YOU WILL CRACK THIS INTERVIEW FOR SURE ! Finally CONGRATULATIONS for getting selected for the interview and ALL THE BEST for the interview . Do well ! Will be grateful if this post helped you guys . - a fellow graduate .