I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cognizant in Aug 2021
Interview
Smooth Interview process but a bit slow as compared to other companies. Mine was on campus hiring and it was only for premier universities in India. At first they did CV shortlisting and then an online test for 3 hours. Online test includes debugging questions, mcq from core subjects like DBMS, JAVA, HTML, SQL. The last part was coding section which includes 6 questions and has to be done in 2 hours. 4 questions were from DSA and other 2 were SQL queries. I would rate the exam difficulty as moderate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q - Introduce yourself
Q - Projects and internship discussion.
Q - Basic questions from core JAVA and HTML, DBMS.
Q - 2 coding questions - "Reverse a string", "Reverse a sentence".
Q - difference between MongoDB and MySQL and Oracle.
Q - Diff between local storage and session storage.
Q - Basic javascript questions.
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.