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 through college or 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 college or 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