I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderābād) in Dec 2012
Interview
Interview process has several rounds like telephonic, one to one technical, manager and HR. Technical will be 2 to 3 rounds. Process will be more and background check also there to validate your experience and education.
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Mostly asks for the worrk you done and the technology you know and their requirement, tests your ability to how you withstand in different situations.
Simple questions about java and spring boot.
Only one round no other technical rounds .
One Hr round and salary discussion .
Mainly focus on cor java , spring boot and microservices
2 technical rounds followed by HR round. All rounds will happen virtually. Technical round with some problem solving questions. Also topics related the latest tech stacks, updates and real time challenges faced in past projects. Current project tasks and responsibilities.
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Question 1
Performance issue faced and solution I have worked.
Walk-in interview it was and they selected few of the candidates and I was one of them we had 3 rounds of interview and in HR round they finalized offer and they said we will get that in few days but lateron after 2 weeks someone from cognizant called and started saying "you need to give one more client interview if you pass that then only offer will be rolled out". I thought I was the only one who stuck with cognizant in this postion but I heard from other candidates also that they did the same and till now they haven't scheduled client interview not they have given any offers. Very bad experience never try to give interview in cognizant again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Regarding projects i worked and then regarding techstack java, springboot, hibernate, microservices etc