I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant in Aug 2021
Interview
It was an online technical interview and there was only one interviewer. It happened in the superset platform where there was an online compiler which the interviewer can also see.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked 2 basic coding questions.
Asked to write an example for oops concept
Some basic to intermediate java questions (since I said I was comfortable with java)
I applied through college or 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 college or 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.