Cognizant GenC Interview Experience 2025

GenC is for freshers -> 4.5lpa and the freshers who perform well in all the assessments are selected for GenC Next(6.75 lpa) I suppose.

ROUND 1 : COMMUNICATION ASSESSMENT I received a mail for Communication Assessment on June 18, 2025 It has 4 segments

• You need to repeat after them
• Fill the blanks
• Active-Passive Voice
• Listen to the story provided and answer accordingly

ROUND 2 : APTITUDE ASSESSMENTS I received a mail for Aptitude Assessment on June 19, 2025.

• Basic apti test.
• The next section consisted of 4 types of pattern segments having time limits for each.

ROUND 3 : TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT Mail was received on 20th June, 2025.

• It consisted of 2 coding questions (you can select the programming lang you prefer).
• Second, it consisted of 2 SQL questions : one was basic select and the other was on JOIN.

ROUND 4 : TECHNICAL INTERVIEW My Technical Interview was scheduled on 26th June, 2025 from 1pm - 2:30pm. However, the actual interview started from 2:15. (Be sure to dress up formal with effecient light in your bg and carry your College ID card with you)

• The Interviewer asked me to show my college proof, I did not have it at that time, so he asked if I had a soft copy on my phone, I did. Showed it to him in the camera, he took a screenshot.
• Introduce yourself : While introducing myself, I mentioned my proficiency in Java, so he began questioning in Java.(Be sure of what you speak).
• What do you mean by polymorphism?
• Wdym by Abstraction and Encapsulation? Where is it used?
• Gave me a program to write : From an array, print the numbers which have duplicate values.
• What else lang do you prefer apart from Java - I said SQL.
• What would you rate yourself on a scale of 1-5 on your SQL skills?
• Would you be able to relocate?
• If in future, you are given to work on any other lang except for Java, are you open to it?
• Can you work in shifts that are not basic?
• What do you mean by error handling?
• What is the use of finally?
• What does static keyword do?
• Any questions for me?

After 10-15 min exiting the interview, I received a call from the HR, I guess he was South Indian and was wearing headphones, I couldn't clearly get what he was saying, but I understood 2 things : Rejoin the interview and feedback, I somewhat merged them and thought he told me to rejoin the interview because feedback was not given. I asked him if I needed to on my camera as I changed my formal clothes and was in casual, he said no no, or it sounded like that, then he hung up. I joined the interview and the same interviewer was there, SHIT, I blocked the camera(I was in my casuals without light), he asked me to ON my camera, SHIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT, I cannot change as I was blocking the camera with my hands as THERE WAS NO OPTION TO BLOCK THE CAMERA. I asked nervously(hahaa), is the interview not finished yet. He was good, he calmly said that this was the next Technical Interview((gaspp)I was not expecting that). So I had to remove my hand. He went on.

• Told me create a table with the attributes he gave me.
• An Update Query
• A delete Query
• Asked me about JOINS, Left Join, Right Join
• Told me to write a sorting(whichever method I want) on an array.
• DROP and TRUNCATE
• Do you know about clouds? -NO -It's okay
• Which JAVA version do you use?-17 Do you know JAVA 8? -No -Streams? -No.
• What new feature does Java 17 have? Done. I received the interview completion mail. It was long but fun.