I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (London, England) in Jul 2019
Interview
Hiring process was conducted in 3 steps.
Step 1: questionnaire with questions based on program output, java 8 features, Spring boot
Step 2: telephonic round for approx 40 minutes
Step 3: HR round for salary negotiation
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on core java,
Questions on collection, string, Restful Services, Spring Boot, Microservices, java 8, streams
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Los Angeles, CA) in Oct 2018
Interview
it was a 1-week process, recruiter submitted my profile waited for 2 weeks to get the interview date and then the nterview happened via skype with phone and coding online.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
diff between set and list
singleton pattern
write code for addition of two numbers using java 8
restful web service creating
diff between put and post
jpa repository
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
I was contacted by a member of their TAG group. It was mentioned that the interview was not an walk in and only few selected people would be there to try for the position. Big joke that was. Atleast hundreds were there for the few seats available. These people would mislead you with these statements.
All of that is still well and good. Now comes the exact bull part. Since they called so many people, they needed to screen a hefty number out before starting interviewing. They did so with an Amcat test. The position I was applying for was Java Microservices Springboot Developer and the test had so many sections on front end things like JS, JQuerry, Html, Angular, React, Reflux or something. There was also some NoSql section along with some concepts which are to be known by scrum masters(what the frikking heck will a developer do with knowledge of what a scrum master should know ?). And to top it off in experience column there was only 1-5 years option, meaning what 5 year exp fellow would have to answer, same 1 year would have to know and answer.
Aced out the java and persistence api questions but they were not enough to carry me to next round as number of irrelevant topic questions were far more. So I ended up wasting almost the entire saturday afternoon which I could have used to show up for some other interview. My mistake was I thought it'd be better to turn up for a interview for a company with a bigger name, and I was wrong. And its not just me, there were numerous others who also felt the same.
Advice to others would be to skip the company as they dont have a balanced interview process at all.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on Java, Persistence Api, Microservices,NoSql ,JS, JQuerry, Html, Angular, React, Reflux or something. Questions on things other than you own tech stack.