ECognizant had off-campus hiring on their platform superset. The company came with two domains - Data Science and Cyber Security. I applied for the Cyber Security one around January 24. It had an online assessment round comprising of basic aptitude, reasoning, and verbal. Any student with a bit of decent prep should be able to crack it.
Later, it was followed by a communication round. Make sure to prepare well mentally for this one. Have a good headset, a silent background around you, and ensure the volume is really high in your headset, because at times the volume is suddenly dropped for a few audios, either technically or due to the accent.
It was followed by a simple technical interview. Since I was from the Cyber Security background, the questions asked were pretty basic - about my projects, some encryption methodologies, algorithms, and a simple hashing program in Java. The interview went pretty smoothly, and I received the selection status after about 2 months. About 2 were shortlisted from my college.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
8. Phishing
9. Cybersecurity definition
10. DoS
11. Concepts familiar with
12. Encryption & decryption with examples
13. Decoding & encoding
14. Recent attacks
15. ATM PIN storage
16. Vulnerability
17. Threat
18. Risk
19. Difference between authorization and authentication
It was very much technical and process oriented, They expected that candidate must be strong in the fundamentals and explain to them in a clean and clear way. two rounds of technical interview followed by a HR. A face to face round is also happened.
I applied through university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Jun 2025
Interview
I applied through my university, and the recruitment process typically spans around 10 days, consisting of three major stages: an initial online test, followed by a technical interview, and concluding with an HR interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
some questions on java and some questions related to cyber security