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      Individual Contributor(Skillset: Java, J2EE) Interview

      Nov 25, 2015
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Chennai
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Nov 2015

      Interview

      I attended a hiring drive on 21st november in chennai. The interviewers were very friendly.The whole process took around 4 hours. No written test. I had 4 rounds of interview, all technical. Most of the questions were based on my current project. Other than that, most of the questions were based on design patterns, struts, web services, Ajax, hibernate

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      What coding standards would you recommend to your team members if selected as team lead?
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      Question 2

      How would you design a database? Did you use normal forms?
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      Question 3

      Explain your project architecture
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      Question 4

      What is db connection pooling? -- Lifecycle of a servlet what is actionservlet in struts? Have you worked on Webservices? Have you used Hibernate Interceptors? How do you manage exceptions that occur at the database level in a web project? What is jstl? Why do you need jstl when jsp has all the features? what are jsp directives?
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      Question 5

      Write ajax code for something simple
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