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based on 1.7K ratings - Updated Jun 18, 2026

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Mar 16, 2021

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Neutral experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cognizant

Interview

Interview was good and highly technical side. It was a walk in so lot of rush and took full day for me to get my turn for interview. They have 2 step interview process i.e. L1 and L2 rounds then HR round.

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Question 1

OOPs concepts, standard technical questions etc

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Software Developer Interview

Mar 15, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Declined offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Nov 2020

Interview

Interview process take around half an hour. Interviewer asked me to introduce myself after that he started asking technical questions and then he raised questions in my academic project. then asked about relocation.

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Question 1

1.tell me about yourself 2.explain halfwave fullwave rectifier 3.haffman coding 4.gsm cdma and so on

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Software Engineer Interview

Mar 15, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant in Feb 2020

Interview

First online test was conducted in that aptitude, logical, programming were there. Next was 2 rounds of technical interview they asked about company and final year projects and then HR interview was conducted

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Question 1

Tell about yourself? Explain in detail about final year project About SQL queries

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