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      Data Engineer Interview

      Jan 17, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cognizant in Jan 2026

      Interview

      This was a Returnship program- It was mentioned to me that the technical interviewer is looking for somebody with Data Engineer experience especially with Pyspark and databricks and big data analytics and Hadoop There was no Job description shared. Just word of mouth from HR About the position need skills with pyspark and data bricks

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. How do you access an element of a set? 2. What is the difference between list, tuple, and set? 3. What is the difference between append() and extend()? 4. How do you merge two dictionaries? 5. How do you check if a string contains only alphabets and numbers (no special characters)? 6. In SQL, how do you find the second highest salary employee from a department table? 7. What is the difference between DDL and DML? 8. How do you delete a row in SQL? 9. What do you know about ETL? 10. How do you update a certain key’s value in a dictionary? 11. What is encapsulation in Python? 12. Tell me about yourself, tell me about your education and career break And what kind of projects you recently worked on explain the projects. A lot of focus on Job role if you are lucky to know it and questions will be asked from that For example since this was a data engineering role They wanted someone efficient in Pyspark, Hadoop , ETL, A cloud service (Azure/AWS) and databricks especially SQL concepts.
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      Other Data Engineer Interview Reviews for Cognizant

      Data Engineer Interview

      May 26, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Tempe, AZ
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Cognizant (Tempe, AZ) in May 2026

      Interview

      Never got to the interview. They rescheduled 5+ times/were no shows at every interview I attended and claimed it was technical issues. This was all for some program where they train you to be a data engineer but it seems like they couldn't figure out an interview

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Was told to study some study guide they provided
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      Data Engineer Interview

      Mar 16, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cognizant

      Interview

      it wasn't too difficult; there were about 3 rounds. There was an online assessment which included a multiple choice for technical and recorded video prompts for behavioral. Then there was an HR screening call and then technical interview with someone live.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe one challenge and how you solved it.
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      Data Engineer Interview

      Feb 26, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cognizant

      Interview

      In the technical interview, they asked how technical strong I am with lots of scenario based and straight away questions. In the second technical round, they asked about deep technical knowledge.In hr discussion they asked about of I am willing to work on any shift and okay to relocate to any city based on project requirements. After offer negotiation, it was complete

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      Question 1

      They asked if I am able to work on critical work situations and handle production issues.
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