I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Sep 2015
Interview
The interview process was easy. In first round they had asked just basic stuffs like verbal, logical reasoning etc...
Second day was for personal interview where i had technical and hr rounds
in technical round i was asked about the basics of cs and some stuff related to my project
Hr was conducted only for the people who cleared the technical round
Hr was friendly and had asked easy but tricky questions
Overall PI was fun
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
aptitude was easy
technical :
Write a code to print a patterned matrix
basics of DBMS
hr:
i give you one minute make me your friend
Tell me about your family
What is unique about the company and you
The interview was primarily technical, concentrating on C#, .NET, SQL, and API concepts. Questions tested understanding of core principles and practical application. The process was straightforward, professional, and focused on technical depth.
I applied online and got a calll back, had 4 rounds in total. first was a behavioral phone call just casual talks about your skills and when can you start working and general questions, then two coding rounds in hackerrank - was asked to code in java although the job was for python and finally HR.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in May 2026
Interview
Interview process was straight forward. Two technical Interview L1 and L2 rounds happened. L1 was easy with basic java questions. But L2 was the actual interview. They were asking every concept very deeply.