I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant in Nov 2020
Interview
Preplacement talk
Gen C online test
Interview (tech +hr)
Divided into 3 parts
1) pre placement talk
2) online test (Apti, verbal, error codes, paragraph writing)
3) interview shortlist
4) Tech and HR conducted together in November 2020.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About project, core subject, programming and HR questions
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Oct 2020
Interview
It was a virtual interview which took around half-an-hour. They asked me about my projects and extracurricular activities, my personal strengths, and my weaknesses. Since there was a lockdown that year, they asked me about what did I learnt during the lockdown and some questions from my resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why did you choose this domain for your project?
What is the difference between NoSQL and RDBMS?
Tell me something about yourself.
Why Cognizant?
Tell us a situation in which you faced some difficulties and how did you overcame that?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
It was pure technical and they asked few basic programming qns which was easy as well as hard for me as I am a Biotechnology student. Then asked about some basics of information technology