I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (West Godavari) in Sep 2021
Interview
I interviewed through ON CAMPUS
First asked to introduce yourself
It is easy to moderate
have knowledge of your basics
Get a piece of knowledge on at least one programming language.
As I am a mechanical background asked about the basics of my mechanical subjects
and 15-20 Programming questions and 2 aptitude questions and a program to execute.
I gave all answers to every question and displayed the output
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Introduce yourself
2. Two mechanical questions(which are very basic)
3. Two aptitude questions on Ratios and average
4. Program to execute(swapping of two numbers without using 3rd variable)
5. 15-20 questions on C language as I mentioned in my resume that I have learnt it so
like what is variable, the difference between local and local&global variables, call by value and call by reference
6. infinite in the loop in C
7. what is a pointer
8. what is the use Of pointer
9. Have you any internships
10. what is your final year project
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