I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Oct 2020
Interview
There was an initial test process which included aptitude questions and coding questions. On passing that, there was a personal interview. The interviewer was very friendly and patient. The questions asked were of all levels of difficulty, easy, average and difficult. The interviewer also asked me questions as per my branch of engineering
the interview process was okay okay. not very tough for me but for some students it was very long and time taking around 1hr to 1.30hrs and for some it was just for 20 to 30 minutes
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (New Delhi) in Nov 2020
Interview
Cognizant visited my campus in the month of November 2020. There were total 3 rounds, first one is of aptitude+debbuging on amcat platform. After the first round 200 students from my campus selected for the second round. I was one of them. Second round was of technical interview . Interviewer was very friendly . He started with asking about mine favorite subject. I said DBMS and DS. Then he asked me about Types of normalization, views, procedures, indexing. After that he gave me one easy problem of aptitude. I answered all the questions. He seemed satisfied with my answers. Then we had a brief overview over all my projects and why I choose the mentioned stacks in the project.
After this round almost 50 students got selected for the HR round.
HR asked me some basic questions like why I want to join Cognizant etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What are the types of Normalization?
2. Difference between Procedures and Triggers.
3. What are Views?
4. What doyou know about MongoDB?