I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Noida) in Aug 2021
Interview
The Interview process goes straight point to point. Starting with the introduction of the candidate followed by the description of the projects and if they would be interested in the domain of your project, they can dig further into the projects to see if the candidate has solely worked on it and is familiar to the technology. After getting satisfied by the response, the interviewer moves onto some basic questions of probability and statistics to know that the candidate has sound knowledge of data interpretation and reasoning ability.
After that, they may move onto some core topics of CS like OOP and OS, they also test the candidate on their practical knowledge of these concepts on a code editor. The interview carries out with some verbal questions along with the process where interviewer tries to extract and grade the basic knowledge of the candidate. After around 40-45 mins, the interview gets completed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a code in C++(as it was my preferred programming language) to implement any three out of four concepts of OOP.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Gāndhīnagar, Gujarat) in Nov 2025
Interview
Step1 : communication and aptitude test
Step2: technical test
Step3: It is having two rounds of interview in span of month. Both covers all topics from your cluster and a Dsa question.
Whole process took approximately 3 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Memory management in python , sql , cloud fundamentals, dsa
I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in Nov 2025
Interview
The Questions asked were as following:
linked list middle element
difference between truncate and drop in sql
OOPS runtime polymorphism theory and code
3rd highest salary
Overall the interview was quite good for me but i guess my luck wasn't by my side.
It's very easy. OOPS, Java, SQL, HTML is asked you can easily do it. And projects based on your resume. Maybe some questions related to relocation and about you. Only this is asked it is very easy.