Cognizant Sr Software Engineer interview questions
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Sr Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Telephonic (with HR), In person (with technical manager), In Person (with Project Manager). Technical interviewer covered all the depth topics in C++ from memory management till program to implement virtual tables. some questions were on inheritance complexities , OOPS principals etc
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Unexpected questions were about some general math puzzles
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Dec 2012
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I was interviewed at Campus. 2 rounds of Interview. First Technical and second HR.
Technical was mainly focused on your B.tech Projects along with some algorithms and programming questions. In HR there were same basic questions.