I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Charlotte, NC)
Interview
Discussion about production support and tools used for it. Basic questions from resume. Discussion about availability during weekends and on call support . It was 2 panel interview followed by hr interview
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Nueva Delhi) in Dec 2021
Interview
There were 2 technical rounds followed by HR round. The interviewer asked the basic questions related to java, spring boot, hibernate, previous project and technical challenges during the current tenure.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Autowired in Spring boot? 2) Internal working of hashset? 3) Difference between list and set? 4) Hibernate's saveAndUpdate() Vs update() Vs save() 5) How to implement spring security? 6) What and how to implement transactions 7) How does JWT token works ? 8) How to debug memory in a java project ?
For a contract position I believe it was a bit easier than what full time would have been. mix data structure and algorithm coding assessment and theoretical java questions. the interview was one hour long.