I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cognizant in May 2016
Interview
Got opportunity to take part in interview via naukri.
Interview process has 2 technical face to face interview followed by HR round.
If the performance at first technical round is satisfactory then direct HR else have to go through another round of technical interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked to write a Map reduce program and question from Hive and pig
2 rounds , Technical and Hr for experienced people
Mostly based on hive and spark .
Questions based on your last project, your roles and responsibilities, you should aware of data warehouses, data lake and one strong programs languages like Java Scala and python any one of them
Strong Sql skills
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hadoop,Hive and ecosystem , about ptojects and ur role related
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cognizant (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Feb 2020
Interview
2 rounds. first they conducted a telephonic interview and after that client cum managerial round. Telephonic round lasted for 1 hour and focussed majorly on hive joins and sql joins plus some difficult queries incorporating the use of analytical functions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
questions mostly on hive and spark as the mentioned in the JD. different types of joins in hive..map side joins,reduce side joins,bmp,smb, left semi join..some sql queries based on analytical functions. Overall difficulty level was average.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Jan 2020
Interview
Everytime they call for interview and make everyone wait for 4 -5 hrs minimum and finally will have some basic questions and send back. Till now i have not seen person got selected and the questions they ask are basic and even if we answer all , they will say will get back to you. I doubt seems they are just making it for showcase not for recruiting the people. Its time waste to go for this company interview. If you have no other chance and have enough time to spend at their office . can go and come back you will feel you wasted one day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
nothing specific. Just basic questions on your project.