I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Visakhapatnam) in Aug 2021
Interview
Basically it happened online which consists of two rounds one is Technical Interview and the other is HR interview. We need to turn on our cameras and it happened on superset portal.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the threading process in Java?
What is encapsulation?
Print Hello world without using printf()
I am a fresher , the type of questions I prepared for interview was huge like i was bit nervous about the kind of questions they would ask, but the questions were what is OS, AI, etc that too from a company like Cognizant. Honestly it was surprising since it was my first interview, but yeah I did well and the interview ended in 7-8 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are your weaknesses in terms of preofessional skills
I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant in Feb 2026
Interview
The interviewer was helpful but the JD was incredibly misleading. They had mentioned working with cloud and databases in their JD and in the interview, you get to know that it's "customer service" job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic behavourial questions around teamwork and projects