These were fairly straight forward ones- FizzBuzz, Fibonacci for coding problems, couple of bitwise operations with XOR, regex for US phone number, abt 50% theory questions like interface vs abstract classes and uses of generics and SOLID principles. One question were I messed up a bit was 'Write the api for System.out.println()'. I didn't fully understand the question, then the interviewer clarified. Essentially, he wanted me to write the classes and methods (ignoring the actual logic code) that would allow the user to write System.out.println(). I used inner class to implement it. Good luck.

Thanks. I was contacted by the Sr.Director about 10 days after the interview and made the offer.

Cool then I still have a chance :)

Technical stuff will be similar to initial screen, lots of theory, fibonacci/factorial code, debug a simple code block etc. Prepare for behavioral questions and estimation problems. There is a chapter in the book "How Would You Move Mount Fuji" by William Poundstone about problems like that. Good luck.

I attended the Interview in Phoenix , HR contacted me today and said that the Cognitive interview did not go well as planned . So they are not going to proceeding with me , They asked me the same question "How may cards does AMEX approve each year " . I was prepared for this and i think i answered well for this question , but not sure what went wrong . I am curious to know good answer, what answer did you provide for the credit cards question ?

Sorry to hear that. These things are sometimes very unpredictable. I don't remember the exact numbers I did that day, but It is an estimation problem. I started with US population- 300 million...cards will not be issued for ppl under 15 and old people, lets say 20%, so remaining 2.4 M. Similarly, subtract X% for people with bad credit, y% for people who bought card within last year, since they are unlikely to get another..and so on. Essentially, i started with max limit and subtracted an estimated % for the filters I thought were applicable. I remember in the end, the interviewers were not even looking at the final number I came up. So they probably just wanted to see how I approached the problem.

1 million.

Cong8ss!! Even I gave the interview last month with same questions but didn't hear back anything from them....Did they call you or send you note to update this??Please advise.Thanks

Thank you , i cleared the first round . Can you give me more details on onsite interview ? How should i prepare ? What type of questions they are asking in the onsite rounds ?

I knew it was an estimation problem, but I am not really good at doing fast math, so stumbled at a few places involving percentages. There is no exact answer, but the focus is in how you arrive at the answer.