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Cognizant Interview Questions for Freshers

Recruits freshers under GenC (entry), GenC Next, and GenC Elevate (premium, higher package for advanced coders).

Eligibility

60% throughout; no active backlogs; max 1-year gap.

Cognizant hiring process

  1. 1Online Assessment

    Aptitude + 2 coding questions; Elevate has harder DSA problems.

  2. 2Technical Interview

    DSA, DBMS, OOP, project, and full-stack basics for higher roles.

  3. 3HR Interview

    Behavioural and relocation questions.

Topics to prepare

Quantitative AptitudeLogical ReasoningData StructuresDBMSOOPsCoding

Sample Cognizant interview questions

Aptitude

  • Q. Find the LCM and HCF of 24 and 36.
  • Q. A clock shows 3:15. What is the angle between the hour and minute hands?
  • Q. Complete the analogy: Book : Reading :: Fork : __.

Technical

  • Q. Explain the difference between DELETE, TRUNCATE and DROP.
  • Q. What is recursion? Write a recursive factorial function.
  • Q. Find whether two strings are anagrams of each other.

HR

  • Q. Why did you choose your engineering branch?
  • Q. Tell me about your strengths and one weakness.
  • Q. Are you willing to learn a new technology stack?

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