I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
The interview was scheduled in the morning and once I started the interview it was smooth experience as the interviewer was experienced person wanted to know in which field was I comfortable asked about programming languages preference so, I selected C++
and next 10-20 minutes the interview was based on that and other questions were based on my discipline i.e. ECE and few concepts of DBMS and SQL.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about swapping function of two numbers is performed in how many ways?
I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant in Jan 2021
Interview
Let us start with the first round: 30 questions in 45 minutes. Basic questions from aptitude, logical, general knowledge and english. Cutoff for this section is low and also there is no negative marking.
Then its time for group discussion. We are 9 in a group and get a very common topic and in this round whole group performed really well. Result (7/9 selected including me).
After that comes the Technical round and i performed really well in this.
First some basic introduction about myself and some discussion on recent topics.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself.
How would you describe yourself?
What makes you unique?
Why do you want to work here?
What interests you about this role?
What motivates you?
What are you passionate about?
Why are you leaving your current job?
What are your greatest strengths?
What makes you unique?
I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Nuova Delhi) in Feb 2020
Interview
First I gave an online exam via AMCAT
After that I went through 2 interviews 1st technical and 2nd HR
During the technical interview the interviewer mainly focused on my final year project. Asked a few basic programming codes, about my extracurricular activities.