Written Round :
The Written round consists of two major sections namely General Aptitude Test and Verbal Ability Test. General Aptitude Test, has mathematical reasoning part and logical reasoning part and verbal ability Test.
Technical Round and HR Round :
The students who clear the written round are called for Technical Interview. There is no hard & fast rule for which questions will be asked in this round, you can expect questions on any topic depending on the panel. To clear this round you should be clear with your basics. You should be prepared with Data structures and Algorithms, DBMS, Operating System, Networking, OOPs concepts and a programming language of your choice. Students from branches other than CS should prepare for other two subjects related to their branch. CS students will be expected to write codes in the interview. They also ask questions from resume. You may be asked puzzles in this round. To be prepared for puzzles you can practice from our Puzzles section.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about Yourself
2. Why Cognizant ?
3. How you see yourself after five years from now ?
4. What are your strengths and weaknesses ?
5. Questions form resume
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Sep 2021
Interview
The online assesssment was conducted in amcat platform and it had three sections : logical,numerical and verbal .About 25 minutes. slot timing was at 12 pm. waited for around 5 hours. Questions about department subjects, oops, data structures.results came after two weeks
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is transformer, types of transformer, types of transformer losses, types of inheritance, types of sorting
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Neu-Delhi) in Feb 2021
Interview
Very tough. the interview ask question not from the field of computers and expect us to have knowledge about mechnical stuffs while we were from cse branch. very tiring interview and the hiring agent was rude.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what are stacks? linked list? circular linked list.