I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Greater Noida) in Sept 2019
Interview
Campus recruitment drive.....Written round where almost more than 1k students were there and 465 were selected for the interview .....
1) Technical round - she started with tell me something about yourself than went through the tech. qus..
Code - find the max no, doubly linked list & bubble sort
Basics - Dbms join querry & normalization
Java, python and c++ basic qus
Oops concepts
Networking - TCP/IP & OSI model with layer discription
Definations of digital, machine learning,etc
** qustions on current working projects
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
HR Round -
after clearing the tech round went for HR
only one qus tell me about yourself apart from what u told in tech round..want to knw who are u apart from ur projects and skills
last he asked are u ready to rellocate anywhere i said No and he asked specific reasons which i gave..
he replied u may or may not get the location of ur choice are u still ready ??
The interview focused heavily on my projects, asking about design decisions, challenges, and real-world use cases. I had to explain my thought process clearly. It was a practical and insightful experience that tested genuine understanding.
4 rounds before the interview which inckuded - 2 oa - 1st aptitude ,2nd technical, then 3rd coding round then voice assesment after clearing all these i got selected for interview , then hr then for a formality there was a bot interview in which i faced technical error and i got rejected after clearing 5-6 rounds they reject my application my efforts because of the system error
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (Noida) in Feb 2026
Interview
After clearing three online rounds (Aptitude with gaming assessment, Communication, Coding), they call for interview. Interview was in-person through superset platform. Interview duration was 15-20 minutes. Questions were around Python, SQL, and resume based questions