There was one online test and one technical interview in which the main focus was on the Engineering Subjects like Java , DSA , SQL , Cloud Fundamentals and this was a college placement so it was easy to clear
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about SQL joins and sub query
and asked about working of hashmap in java
I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Jan 2026
Interview
It was great as it was not so difficult as they asked all basic questions like about my projects and basic python related questions and basic codes and asked the logic of the code written.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First they asked to introduce yourself and then asked about my projects.
Then asked in which language you are comfortable and asked some basic questions on python as I had told them python. And asked me to write codes in python
Initially started with Communication round done online then java and sql ,gave time for Spring boot then conducted interview for spring, springboot related topics.
Oops in java , sub queries in sql are asked to execute in a compiler