I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderabad) in Aug 2021
Interview
Technical round:
Coding questions-
-Reverse my name
-Find duplicates in a array/ linked list
Some questions from My projects
The interview lasted for 30mins
It was quite short compared to others
The questions very very basic , only dsa and some oop concepts required. Basic SQL knowledge also required
Other Software Engineer (GenC Next) Interview Reviews for Cognizant
I applied through college or 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 college or 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.