While this was a long back(September 2024), I got to know about this dicussion feature on leetcode only a few days back. So, I'm posting now as this may help someone.

Cognizant Hiring Process Involved 4 Major Rounds Where All Were Elimination Rounds

Initially they asked all of us to create accounts on superset and apply for the job on superset itself where they are three bands 1) Java+ Front End, 2) Python+ AWS, SQL 3) C# + .Net.

After a few weeks of registration they came for pre-placement talk and explained the company culture, their policies and their partners etc.,

Round 1: After some few days I guess they scheduled Online Communication Assement. (Elimination)

Round 2: Aptitude Assesment ; asked to install SAB tool for giving this test which is online. (Elimination)

Round 3: Techincal Assessment ; based on the band you registered Technical Assessment vary, for me since I selected 2nd band for I got 2 coding questions and 20 multiple choice questions related to AWS and SQL. They asked to install MSB tool for giving this test. (Elimination)

Round 4: Techincal and HR Interview round

This was scheduled in our campus itself , Cognizant team came to our college to conduct this, both Technical and HR questions were asked in this round itself.

• Technical Questions asked for me:

1. • Self Introduction
2. • Detailed Explanation about your projects
3. • Internship projects
4. • Python program to replace vowels in a string with asterik with respect to the increasing vowel count
5. • Python program to find the occurrence of each last word from a given list of sentences .
6. • Inner join and left join differences
7. • Three tables are given and asked to write a query to fetch records according to the blood group and id range by joining all the three tables

• HR

1. • About My Hobbies
2. • About My native place
3. • Willingness to work in any location
4. • Any Shift restrictions
5. • Any questions for them.

Verdict: Selected