I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant in Nov 2020
Interview
One round only. In this round they ask few basic coding question then 2 aptitude or puzzles and one HR or situation based questions. Also in the beginning they will ask questions based on your stream until you do not give a wrong answer.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
What is diode. What is difference between 8085 and 8086. Explain architecture of 8086 microprocessor.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Nov 2025
Interview
The Interview was average only. Questions were mainly on :-
i)OOPS
ii)Coding(Mainly arrays and Strings but few were asked Leetcode Hard)
iii)Questions based on Resume
iv) Aptitude questions
v) Behavioural Questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interview mainly revolved around OOPS concepts and questions on resume. Then few coding questions and few puzzles and aptitude.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
My interview was conducted via superset platform. Interviewer was mainly focused on programming fundamentals and basic questions from java programming. Two coding questions were given (Binary Search implementation, factorial of a number) and few branch related questions and the interview ended with some basic aptitude questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Binary search Implementation
2. Fcatorial of a number
Seamless experience with recruiters 3 rounds
Screening (DSA + JS + HTML+ CSS), Interview (JAVA, OOPS, Handson ] then HR round Things took around 1 month. Interview round went for more than 1 hour in my case and HR round was roughly 20 minutes with standard questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Medium Java Questions, A scenario based problem solving to test knowledge of OOPS and SQL