I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant in Feb 2026
Interview
After completing aptitude, communication and technical assessment I got a mail for interview round where the panel interviewer was very supportive and polite. she helped when I was feeling nervous she helped me while answers questions to stay calm overall it was good experience
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First introduce myself
Question on java like difference between method overloading and method overriding, types of inheritance, questions on garbage collection and opps , Java code on fibonacci serious, questions on SQL like what do you mean by DML commands and DDL commands difference between truncate and delete, Sql query on find second highest salary,
At at last she asked are you ready to relocate and are you ready to work night shift this was my interview experience..
There will be two technical round. L1 covered basic of all tech concepts.
L2 conceded some code snippets and advanced concepts. And once you selected HR and offer letter will be on the same day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked all concepts from basics to advanced.
Activity Lifecylce
Viewmodel internals
Diff between interface and Abstract class
Kotlin scope functions
Kotlin Coroutines
Compose basics
Smooth interview process as well as it was very interesting with ample feedback at the end. I enjoyed the conversation a lot and coverted the interview and accepted the offer.