Cognizant
American multinational information technology services and consulting company.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
The Interview Loop
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Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How does Spring Boot auto-configuration work under the hood?
#Framework Internals
#Annotations
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you handle exceptions globally in a Spring Boot REST API?
#REST
#Error Handling
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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easy
How do you implement pagination and sorting in Spring Data JPA?
#JPA
#API Design
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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hard
What is the difference between `@Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)` and `REQUIRES_NEW`?
#Transactions
#Database
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you resolve Circular Dependencies in a Spring Boot application?
#Dependency Injection
#Architecture
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the Bean lifecycle in the Spring framework.
#Framework
#IoC
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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easy
What is the difference between `@Component`, `@Service`, and `@Repository` in Spring?
#Annotations
#Architecture
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