I applied through university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (Parlakhemundi) in Sept 2021
Interview
The Technical interviewer was quite difficult. And my interview gone through virtual mode which is around 70 to 80 mins. Interviewer started asking from basics of Java to advance level, At last about major project.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about yourself? 2. What is Java? 3.what do you know JVM and How it is useful? 4.What is difference between JVM and JRE? 5. What is Oops concept? 6.what are the four pillars of the Oops and describe about it. 7. What is Class and Object? 8.What is abstract class? 9.what is method in java? 10. What is Method Overloading? 11. Write a program to find in list of students, those who paid the fee and those who are not paid the list should be separate list. 12. The interviewer shown some codes and we should guess output. Both in java and SQL. 13. And given some queries in SQL like display the list of employees those names start with D. 14. Display the salary of an employee is greater than 30,000. 15. At finally the interviewer asked did you have any questions. 16. If you are selected, then are you able to relocate?
I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Gāndhīnagar, Gujarat) in Nov 2025
Interview
Step1 : communication and aptitude test
Step2: technical test
Step3: It is having two rounds of interview in span of month. Both covers all topics from your cluster and a Dsa question.
Whole process took approximately 3 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Memory management in python , sql , cloud fundamentals, dsa
I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in Nov 2025
Interview
The Questions asked were as following:
linked list middle element
difference between truncate and drop in sql
OOPS runtime polymorphism theory and code
3rd highest salary
Overall the interview was quite good for me but i guess my luck wasn't by my side.
It's very easy. OOPS, Java, SQL, HTML is asked you can easily do it. And projects based on your resume. Maybe some questions related to relocation and about you. Only this is asked it is very easy.