Cognizant GenC Interview Experience (On campus) 2025
Summary
I applied for the Cognizant GenC role through a campus drive and successfully navigated four rounds: Communication, Aptitude, Technical, and a final Interview, where I solved all three given coding questions. I was one of 6 students selected from the final interview pool.
Full Experience
Cognizant came to our campus.
I applied the drive on superset portal. (Fill the form properly otherwise your application will not be shortlisted )
Total student applied :- Around 170 student
After shortlisting :- Around 120 student
Round 1 : - Communication round (4-Feb-2025)
Mcq , Speaking , Reading
Round 2 :-Aptitude ( 8-Feb-2025)
Around 30 question were asked followed by gamified round. Gamified round is very important ,prepare in advance (Technicalhub.io this website will help you for the preparation of gamified round)
Round 3 :- Technical (11-Feb-2025)
Total 5 question
- 2 Sql
- 2 Dsa (I was not good at java but I learned some syntax and collection to solve the problem )
- 1 Frontend
I was able to solve 2 sql , 2 dsa and Frontend question was partially solve (I don't know why frontend question was giving some error even though my code was right )
After this round 9 student were selected for interview (All of them for Gen C role)
Some of those who solved all the question were not shortlisted for interview and some of them solved only 3 question was proceeded for interview so all depends on luck Or (might be there is system for plagiarism check ) .
Round 4 :- Interview (5-March-2025)
As It was oncampus so interview was offline and also there was a video call on superset with same person.
To write code they have there code editor with multiple language supported(C++,C,Python,Java,etc) on superset.
Introduction
I was not good at java so he asked me why not java
Your proficient language . I told c++
He told me to rate out of 10 . I told 9
He said I will be happy if you solve this question. He gave me total 3 question and it was very easy question
- 1. Transpose the matrix
- 2-3 . I am not able to recall
I solved all three question
What did you hate most?
Family background
What do you think about toppers of your class ?
Relocation and some common question
At end 6 student were selected. I was one of them.
Interview Result date :- 19-March-2025
Interview Questions (5)
Given a matrix, write a function to return its transpose. I was asked to solve this during the final interview and successfully did so in C++.
The interviewer asked me: 'What did you hate most?' as a behavioral question.
The interviewer inquired about my family background.
The interviewer asked: 'What do you think about toppers of your class?'
The interviewer asked some common questions regarding relocation.
Preparation Tips
For the gamified round, I noted that Technicalhub.io could be helpful for preparation. For the technical round, despite not being proficient in Java, I learned some syntax and collections to solve problems.