I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Jersey City, NJ) in May 2025
Interview
The interview assessed past experience, Java Streams, multithreading, and Spring Boot. AWS topics included EC2, S3, and Lambda, along with Terraform and EKS cluster management. A key challenge was designing a custom cache with eviction policies, thread safety, distributed caching, and scalability.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. JAVA Streams related coding
2. Saga Pattern Use Case
3. Cache-related question
4. AWS Deployment on EKS Cluster
HR reached out and had short conversation about experience ,rate and location . then scheduled a online Tech interview scheduled . Before the interview I was asked to show my ID proof. Interview started about telling about myself. Then I was asked about my last project. Then followed by Tech qs
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell about Yourself and Roles and Responsibilities at your last project.
Only 1 round of technical discussion for .net fullstack developer followed by HR discussion. In my opinion is interview is easy and questions are from very basic fundamentals. Cleared the interview but as company is not ready to pay 25LPA (which is my current CTC) for 6 Year experienced, declined the offer because they literally rolled out the offer lower than current CTC.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic fundamental questions from .net, angular and sql. Few coding challenges.