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Cognizant Software Engineer Interview Questions

33+ questions from real Cognizant Software Engineer interviews, reported by candidates.

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2024-2025
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OA 10 Coding 9 Recruiter 8 Phone Screen 4 System Design 1 Behavioral 1

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LeetCode #9: Palindrome Number. Difficulty: Easy. Topics: Math. Asked at Cognizant in the last 6 months.

LeetCode #3: Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters. Difficulty: Medium. Topics: Hash Table, String, Sliding Window. Asked at Cognizant in the last 6 months.

LeetCode #1: Two Sum. Difficulty: Easy. Topics: Array, Hash Table. Asked at Cognizant in the last 6 months.

LeetCode #509: Fibonacci Number. Difficulty: Easy. Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Recursion, Memoization. Asked at Cognizant in the last 6 months.

LeetCode #121: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock. Difficulty: Easy. Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming. Asked at Cognizant in the last 6 months.

LeetCode #20: Valid Parentheses. Difficulty: Easy. Topics: String, Stack. Asked at Cognizant in the last 6 months.

LeetCode #88: Merge Sorted Array. Difficulty: Easy. Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting. Asked at Cognizant in the last 6 months.

LeetCode #5: Longest Palindromic Substring. Difficulty: Medium. Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming. Asked at Cognizant in the last 6 months.

LeetCode #175: Combine Two Tables. Difficulty: Easy. Topics: Database. Asked at Cognizant in the last 6 months.

Candidate Information:This is my experience about Digital Nurture Program of Cognizant for C# cluster which was conducted on campus .Recruitment Process Overview:-Commun...

After the training we had 10 days of gap and then we had our interviews .My interview slot was from 9 am to 6 pm and we will be called randomly anytime in that given slot ...

2025 graduate fresher, applied via on-campus hiringRoles OfferedGenC – ₹4 LPAGenC-Pro – ₹5.4 LPAGenC-Next – ₹6.75 LPARecruitment Overview Process Initial ScreeningTechnica...

Round 1:Status: [2025 graduate fresher, applied via on-campus hiring].Role: GenC (4 LPA), GenC-Pro (5.4 LPA), GenC-Next (6.75 LPA).Interview Date: [May, 2025]Overview of I...

Hello Everyone! I am a 4th-year Computer Science and Engineering student actively preparing for software engineering roles. I am based in Andhra Pradesh, and recently part...

I had two interviewers for my Cognizant interview—one was present in-person (offline), and the other joined online. Both interviewers introduced themselves before proceedi...

Overview of the interview process at cognizant:Cognizant offers two packages- GenC (Base package) and GenC Next(Higher Package).Round 1: Online coding round conducted on A...

Round 1:This round comprised of an online test on AMCAT. Sections included quants, verbal, automata fix. Automata fix had questions regarding - finding the exponential of ...

I got a chance to sit for the recruitment process of COGNIZANT (2020). This was an ON-CAMPUS Drive which took place in our own college. So let's begin the discussion.Round...

My interview with Cognizant began on a light note, with the interviewer clarifying that the company operates with integrity and does not offer bribes. From there, the disc...

One crisp autumn morning, I received an email from Cognizant inviting me for an interview. The subject line read: "Interview Invitation – Software Engineer." My heart race...

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