I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Mar 2022
Interview
It was an online exam conducted on AMCAT. Now Cognizant has divided the online aptitude test into two parts: Round 1: GenC Aptitude Assessment Total time: 100mins In this section, we had 3 parts: Quants, Logical, and English with 25, 35, and 20 questions respectively. Since I had cleared the first round I was eligible for the 2nd round which was a communication assessment. Round 2: Communication Assessment Total time: 45mins This section again had 3 parts: Reading grammar, comprehension listening and speaking. I did well in this round and got selected for the interview rounds. GenC Interview- The third round was the Technical Interview. It was conducted on Superset platform and the duration was 30 minutes. This whole round, the interviewer focused mostly on Communication and Technical Skills. Questions:- Self Introduction Project related questions. You are from ECE background, why choose IT? There were some basic aptitude problems he gave to solve. What is software development life cycle? Answer- SDLC is the process of designing, building and maintaining a software product followed by the software development team. It is basically a systematic approach towards developing a product as per the requirements. What are OOPS concepts? Answer- OOPS concepts include class, object, inheritance, abstraction, polymorphism, abstraction. There were two coding questions:- a. Write a program to find whether a number is even or odd.
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Question 1
It was an online exam conducted on AMCAT. Now Cognizant has divided the online aptitude test into two parts: Round 1: GenC Aptitude Assessment Total time: 100mins In this section, we had 3 parts: Quants, Logical, and English with 25, 35, and 20 questions respectively. Since I had cleared the first round I was eligible for the 2nd round which was a communication assessment. Round 2: Communication Assessment Total time: 45mins This section again had 3 parts: Reading grammar, comprehension listening and speaking. I did well in this round and got selected for the interview rounds. GenC Interview- The third round was the Technical Interview. It was conducted on Superset platform and the duration was 30 minutes. This whole round, the interviewer focused mostly on Communication and Technical Skills. Questions:- Self Introduction Project related questions. You are from ECE background, why choose IT? There were some basic aptitude problems he gave to solve. What is software development life cycle? Answer- SDLC is the process of designing, building and maintaining a software product followed by the software development team. It is basically a systematic approach towards developing a product as per the requirements. What are OOPS concepts? Answer- OOPS concepts include class, object, inheritance, abstraction, polymorphism, abstraction. There were two coding questions:- a. Write a program to find whether a number is even or odd.
Two interviews with coding test and and aptitute test , pretty easy , aske about projects done and java oops questions also sql question , position was full stack developer
We had many rounds like 3 rounds before interview and interview was quite good. I got selected into cognizant as and programmer analyst trainee. I did not focus much on java, so due to that i Got 4 lpa
They asked very basic questions of reversing a string java basics and sql introduction and asked some data structures concepts finally few hr questions so on finally interviewer looks very strict interview got rejected