Atlast (though it was 2nd company here) I got thru Cognizant. I am sending
my intv. experience...July 11, 2006
Cognizant came to our campus NIT, Durgapur for campus recruitment. There was
only two round written & intv(techni & hr combined). Aptitude was in
this format:
Verbal non verbal 25 qns 20 mnts
Analytical 25 qns 30 mnts
Questins like figure matching(mental ability) 20 questions 20 mnts
Questions were not esy not hard, I answred (11+21+8). There was no sectional
cut off.
194 students cleard written of abt 250 students, & finally selected 96
students( 5 m.tech, 6 mca, rests b.tech)
though I was sure, not to cross the written(bcoz verbal sec. was not done
confidently & lower cutoff for the 3rd sec. though there was no sec. cut
off) but I did.
Written test was arranged by merit track & there waz one qustn set.
Verbal
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there was two passages one of them was about air pollution by sashi tharoor
from sash*tharoor.com
some qstns of rearranging sentences.
Finding the correct/incorrect sentences(5-6 qstns)
Analytical
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colored cube problem
data interpretation problem where $ represents 1 & * represnts 0.
Venn diag. problem
Mental Ability
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5-6 logic qstns like
1. no X's r Y's; no Y's r Z's ; choose the conclusion from following
i. no X's r Z's ii. All X's r Z's
iii. ..
some figure matching questions(10 qstns)..
Interview
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I: walked thru the intv room.
Intvr: gestured to sit down
I: good afternoon sir.
Intv: good afternun. sit down.
I: thnk u sir.
Intv: where r u from?
I: i am from Barrackpore
intv: then why r u at durgapur?
i: for my m.tech study.
intv: o, u r m. tech! then in the mean time he looked into my filled up book
in prescribed format.
[ the book was filled up roughly not so seriously, bcoz we had to fill up
the same with in few mnts before the written exam.
Just like this way:
Strength: commitment
Weakness: easily believed other person
Hobbies: Playing crickt, traveling, listening to music, viewing movies
The qualities u have to be a successful IT professional:
Attitude
Motivation
Having fixed goal
After viewing the book the intvr. said ok & didn't ask any
question frm them (thnk GOD)]
