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Coforge
Appian Developer
JuniorTechnical
Difficulty Level
Medium
Job Type
Remote
Interview Location
India
Overall Experience
(4/5)
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Anonymous
46 viewsPosted Nov 10, 2025
Interview Process
Just sharing my technical round
Questions Asked
1. Project
- Can you introduce yourself and explain your day-to-day responsibilities in your current project?
- What are the Agile ceremonies, and how do they work in your project?
2. Production Support & Ticketing
- Your resume mentions ticketing. Did you work on production support, or was it a different type of system?
- Can you explain the ticketing application you worked on in detail?
- You mentioned it replicated JIRA functionalities — how did you design it, and which JIRA features did you implement?
3. Expression Rule – Hands-On Questions
a) Given 4 dictionaries containing student data (id, name, city), remove students belonging to the city "Pune".
b) Update dictionary data by changing City A to City B.
c) Sort a series of numbers in descending order using the simplest approach.
4. Appian Core Concepts
- What is the execution difference between Index and Property?
- Which Appian objects do NOT support security?
- What are the different types of Groups in Appian?
- In CDT XSD files, what are the annotations for Primary Key and Auto-Increment?
- Which objects are NOT deployed to higher environments?
5. Constants & Deployment Scenarios
- If a constant is manually created in both Dev and Staging, and then deployed, what will happen?
- How do you check for duplicate objects before deployment?
6. System Design Question
- If you have an organization of 20 employees and you need to:
- Send a survey to all employees
- Track who submitted the survey and their responses
- How would you design this system in Appian?
7. Process Model Concepts
- What is MNI and its limitation
- What is the difference between Spawn New Process and Spawn All Processes?
8. Query & Sync Limits
- What is the query limit for related records?
- What is the new Sync limit in Appian?
9. Experience & Platform
- From which Appian version did you start working?
- What are the latest features in the current Appian version?
10. Databases & Integrations
- Which databases are used by default in Appian?
- Why should we not prefer cloud databases directly in Appian?
- Which database did you use in your project, why, and how did you connect it?
11. Web APIs & Integrations
- If an Appian Web API uses a!startProcess, which API methods (GET, POST, etc.) can be used?
- If a third-party API requires a POST request, which integration method should be used in Appian?
12. Database
- What is a Database Index, and how does it work?
- What is a View and a Materialized View?
- What is the difference between View and Materialized View?
- Why should we create a Materialized View, and in what cases should we avoid it?
13. Infrastructure
- Was your project On-Premise or Cloud-based?
14. Experience & Role
- What is your total experience?
- What is your exact role and responsibility in your current project?