I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderābād) in Mar 2025
Interview
My Cognizant Interview Experience
I recently attended an interview with Cognizant, and I’d like to share my experience.
The interview began to show my id card with a few HR-related questions. I was asked about my willingness to relocate and work in rotational shifts, to which I responded positively.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Programming (OOPs) concepts such as overriding and overloading. Further, I was asked about dictionaries in Python, specifically how key-value pairs work, and then moved on to exception handling.
Following the theory questions,
I was given a few coding problems:
1. Given a list of alphabets, count the frequency of each alphabet and return the result.
2. From a given list of numbers, filter out and return only the prime numbers.
3. Given a string, reverse the string word by word (not letter by letter) and then convert the result to uppercase.
After the Python section, the interviewer asked questions from SQL. He tested my knowledge on:
Joins (types and usage),
Unique keys, and how to identify them in a table.
Towards the end of the interview, I was asked a behavioral question.
Finally, the interview concluded with a simple aptitude question.
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