I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderabad) in Oct 2023
Interview
The interview was good as I was on time and through college placements, cleared the assessment and got the interview schedule a week later.
Greetings happened at first, I was questioned on behavioral questions and situational questions first like what would you do if something goes bad in your team, how you would manage pressure. Then asked the technical python questions as I mentioned python as my language and cleared assessment with same. About modules and a problem to display my skills and finally to rate my knowledge in python. Done in 30-40 minutes.
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Question 1
I was questioned on behavioral questions and situational questions first like what would you do if something goes bad in your team, how you would manage pressure. Then asked the technical python questions about modules and a problem to display my skills and finally to rate my knowledge in python
Technical round and later hr round. Basic programming language. Asked to write a code for palindrome. Asked me my fav subject and asked questions from that.I told cyber security so they have asked me to tell about that more.
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Programming basics , sdlc, palindrome program , oop concepts
The Interview consists of 4 rounds
1. General Resume Screening
2. Online Assesment (Gaming + Aptitude)
3. Coding Assessment (Easy - Medium level)
4. Interview (Technical + HR)
The interview process was so easy out of 1100 candidates around 800 were selected for second round and 400 for 3rd round which came down to 247 for interviews and 130 were finally shortlisted
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Question 1
OOPS concepts
Basic Python and Java conceptual questions
A coding question in interview to solve infront of the interviewer - Find the last digit of a number which is formed by merging all the numbers in a given array (numbers in array are of string type)