I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Greater Noida) in Oct 2025
Interview
This was cognizant on campus placement drive in my college for genc role.
Interview started with self introduction then he ask about my project workflow then keywords such as Rest Api and crud then he told me to solve a simple coding question to test how i am in coding and java and one sql questiion. Interview concluded with some hr questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To write sql queries related to 2nd highest salary and employee joined after certain date.
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