I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Sep 2025
Interview
Very smooth systematic process, the panelists were pretty experienced and were very nice in general. They asked questions from DSA, coding in c# was a prerequisite, questions from advanced sql, and questions from your resume, but no updates since a month.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about project, its purpose, coding questions from DSA, advanced SQL and some basic aptitude questions
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Sep 2025
Interview
It lasted around 30 minutes, they asked a few technical questions on computer core topics.
Made me write sql queries, and coding questions on string handling etc
Then most of the questions were on the core topics so read it well
Make sure to answer everything with confidence
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself
Some basic query questions
Few coding questions
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Kothamangalam) in Sep 2025
Interview
The first round was the communication assessment round, followed by hackathon that lasted for 4 days and there were 15 teams and each team had 8 members , where we had to build a project in that times span, after which there was an offline presentation where each member had to present as a team
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the presentation round, the interviewer asked questions about the project build during the hackathon , its technical details, what tech stacks used , and each persons individual role in the project