I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant in Oct 2021
Interview
Interview process was very smooth and easy. Nothing much to worry. I highly advice not to cheat from you phone or laptop second screen as they particularly check how spontaneous and genuine you are. Cause ultimately they have to train each fresher according to them. All they see in a candidate is how fit, quick learner and capable he/she is.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
We had 3rounds.
Round1: typical aptitude + programming basic (this was all MCQ)
Round2: interview round. In this I was asked to code 'reverse a string' & explain how a heap sort works. Apart from this I was asked my subjective computer questions from SQL, Networking, DBMS, OS (all very basic)
Round3: this was more of HR + documents providing rounds and less technical. Was asked 3basic or full form type question from a technical recruiter.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Nov 2025
Interview
The Interview was average only. Questions were mainly on :-
i)OOPS
ii)Coding(Mainly arrays and Strings but few were asked Leetcode Hard)
iii)Questions based on Resume
iv) Aptitude questions
v) Behavioural Questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interview mainly revolved around OOPS concepts and questions on resume. Then few coding questions and few puzzles and aptitude.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
My interview was conducted via superset platform. Interviewer was mainly focused on programming fundamentals and basic questions from java programming. Two coding questions were given (Binary Search implementation, factorial of a number) and few branch related questions and the interview ended with some basic aptitude questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Binary search Implementation
2. Fcatorial of a number
Seamless experience with recruiters 3 rounds
Screening (DSA + JS + HTML+ CSS), Interview (JAVA, OOPS, Handson ] then HR round Things took around 1 month. Interview round went for more than 1 hour in my case and HR round was roughly 20 minutes with standard questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Medium Java Questions, A scenario based problem solving to test knowledge of OOPS and SQL