I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru)
Interview
Cognizant came for Campus Recruitment in our college for Campus Hiring 2022 for GenC and GenC next profiles. There was no GPA cut-off.
The test was 3 hrs and a mix of Aptitude, 4 coding questions, and 1 SQL query.
There were 2 rounds in total: Technical and HR. The 2nd round/HR round was basically document verification.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Round:
1. Tell me something about yourself?
2. What was your final year project?
3. Technologies used in the project.
4. Imagine you have to predict a voting poll result? What will be your techniques starting from data collection to prediction?
5. What were the error matrix I used
5. He asked me if I know Deep Learning? (I said partially)
6. Why do we use CNN in Image Processing?
7. What is hypothesis testing?
8. What is meant by p-value?
. Sorting an array using any technique in your preferred programming language within 5 mins. (Can't use library function).
HR round:
Just verification of your 10th, 12th and Aadhar Card.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Gāndhīnagar, Gujarat) in Nov 2025
Interview
Step1 : communication and aptitude test
Step2: technical test
Step3: It is having two rounds of interview in span of month. Both covers all topics from your cluster and a Dsa question.
Whole process took approximately 3 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Memory management in python , sql , cloud fundamentals, dsa
I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in Nov 2025
Interview
The Questions asked were as following:
linked list middle element
difference between truncate and drop in sql
OOPS runtime polymorphism theory and code
3rd highest salary
Overall the interview was quite good for me but i guess my luck wasn't by my side.
It's very easy. OOPS, Java, SQL, HTML is asked you can easily do it. And projects based on your resume. Maybe some questions related to relocation and about you. Only this is asked it is very easy.