I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh) in Nov 2020
Interview
Technical and HR round .
both will be very smooth general conceptual questions will be asked.
If interviewer is asking you questions back to back do not panic answer it patiently and also if u don't know any answer simply say I don't know. Be confident u will surely crack it.
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I applied through 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 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