I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant in Mar 2020
Interview
There was one technical 45 minute interview. The topics covered were Data Structures, Objected Oriented Programming, and basic algorithms. It was conducted by two software engineers. A couple weeks after I heard back from the recruiter that I got the internship.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a singleton class in object oriented programming?
The interview was good, The interviewer was very calm, It was around 20 min of interview. He asked basic questions on C/C++, No data structures and algorithms were asked. He also asked a few questions on electronics and I was from electronics background
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Swap the variables without using a temporary variable
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Oct 2025
Interview
Good and smooth interview process while the questions were mainly based on basic coding skills and about the projects that we have done in our college . They also focused on core concepts of Java.
Interview was smooth and 3 interviewers joined. All rounds were completed together in 1 hour. After that directly got offer letter. Process was smooth but onboarding was a bit late.