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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      Dec 21, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Rānchī
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (Rānchī) in Nov 2020

      Interview

      It was an oncampus recruitment process. They took an aptitude test followed by Technical Round and HR. Technical round was very random. They didn't even asked technical questions to some students and still offered job and they asked a lot of technical questions to few students and even they answered they were rejected.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      They asked me pillars of oops?
      2 Answers

      Question 2

      Swap 2 numbers without using 3rd variable
      1 Answer

      Other Software Development Engineer Interview Reviews for Cognizant

      Software Development Engineer Interview

      Dec 15, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Chennai
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Oct 2025

      Interview

      online test and then technical plus hr interview if you qualify in the online test you will be selected for the interview and interview is not that difficult its normal

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      about C# and SQL and about HTML
      Answer question

      Software Development Engineer Interview

      Dec 25, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Pānīpat
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pānīpat) in Oct 2025

      Interview

      They take easy interview for entry level technical jobs. If you prepare all basic things from every subjects and confident while giving interview no one can stop you from cracking it.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      First let me be clear, i couldn't crack it due to my network issue in between my interview.In DSA, they asked only one question which was to find the largest element from an array. and asked about my projects and some follow up questions on the tech stacks i used to build my project And absolutely your interview will get started with the introduction and be careful while giving intro as faking anything may hurt you during interview.
      Answer question

      Software Development Engineer Interview

      Jun 27, 2024
      Anonymous employee
      Calcutta
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta)

      Interview

      The interview was held of 40-45 minutes. Several questions were asked based on the projects I have done. Then the interviewer moved to Python and SQL. At the end, 4-5 basic HR questions were asked. Interview was moderately easy.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What do you understand by JOINS in SQL?
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