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      Software Developer Fresher Interview

      Jan 13, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Lucknow

      Other Software Developer Fresher Interview Reviews for Cognizant

      Fresher Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 19, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Hyderābād
      Accepted offer
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Lucknow) in Dec 2019

      Interview

      There three steps in hiring interview process of cognizant: 1- online test 2- TR 3- HR I have been qualified online test consists of quants,logical ,verbal and coding/debugging. All sections are easy except quants . And they ask questions related to your Resume information and I have been asked questions for 45 min throughout interview but not selected.

      Interview questions [6]

      Question 1

      1- Tell me about yourself?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      2- Questions related to the Project?
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      3- Favourite subject and questions related to that subject.
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      4- OOPS Concept
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      5- C Concept and Bubble Sort code
      Answer question

      Question 6

      6- SQL queries
      1 Answer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderābād)

      Interview

      I had online interview,i joined and the panel asked me to run my code and then asked me to explain OOPS concepts,Sir was friendly and it was a great experience.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      About OOPS concepts mainly,also they had a compiler where we hevae to execute the code
      Answer question

      Fresher Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 12, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cognizant

      Interview

      i consists of several rounds before the interview and then we will get to tech interview and HR round. technical interview consists of mid - hard tech question based on data structures and the language that we have mentioned in the resume and some time they will ask about the peojects that we have worked on. For HR interview they have asked about normal questions like personality based etc.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      what is your role in your final year project and what have you learnt?
      Answer question

      Fresher Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 27, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant

      Interview

      first had aptitude then coding round in college and then interview online from college. The aptitude has various different questions some are tricky while some are straight forward you need to watch some youtube videos and practice logical reasonging.