I applied through university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (New Delhi) in Nov 2020
Interview
Cognizant visited my campus in the month of November 2020. There were total 3 rounds, first one is of aptitude+debbuging on amcat platform. After the first round 200 students from my campus selected for the second round. I was one of them. Second round was of technical interview . Interviewer was very friendly . He started with asking about mine favorite subject. I said DBMS and DS. Then he asked me about Types of normalization, views, procedures, indexing. After that he gave me one easy problem of aptitude. I answered all the questions. He seemed satisfied with my answers. Then we had a brief overview over all my projects and why I choose the mentioned stacks in the project.
After this round almost 50 students got selected for the HR round.
HR asked me some basic questions like why I want to join Cognizant etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What are the types of Normalization?
2. Difference between Procedures and Triggers.
3. What are Views?
4. What doyou know about MongoDB?
I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
The initial process went smoothly, but the interviewer who took my interview came with the intention to not hire. Asked all not so fresher friendly questions. After the interview, they didn't even mail regarding the verdict.
There are two interviews for students who have been cleared communication and technical assessment. One is AI-Bot Interview which is Very easy and has fixed questions. After clearing this interview there is next interview which is technical + HR..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. The project workflow.
2. Java Stream API
3. Java Collection Framework
4. What is Wrapper Classes in Java
5. One DSA Question - Maximum Sum Subarray
easy cs fundamentals along with one coding question - usually very easy . couple of common hr questions like if we are willing to relocate and all.
overall easy - just be confident.