J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Cognizant
Entretien
I was contacted by a member of their TAG group. It was mentioned that the interview was not an walk in and only few selected people would be there to try for the position. Big joke that was. Atleast hundreds were there for the few seats available. These people would mislead you with these statements.
All of that is still well and good. Now comes the exact bull part. Since they called so many people, they needed to screen a hefty number out before starting interviewing. They did so with an Amcat test. The position I was applying for was Java Microservices Springboot Developer and the test had so many sections on front end things like JS, JQuerry, Html, Angular, React, Reflux or something. There was also some NoSql section along with some concepts which are to be known by scrum masters(what the frikking heck will a developer do with knowledge of what a scrum master should know ?). And to top it off in experience column there was only 1-5 years option, meaning what 5 year exp fellow would have to answer, same 1 year would have to know and answer.
Aced out the java and persistence api questions but they were not enough to carry me to next round as number of irrelevant topic questions were far more. So I ended up wasting almost the entire saturday afternoon which I could have used to show up for some other interview. My mistake was I thought it'd be better to turn up for a interview for a company with a bigger name, and I was wrong. And its not just me, there were numerous others who also felt the same.
Advice to others would be to skip the company as they dont have a balanced interview process at all.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Questions on Java, Persistence Api, Microservices,NoSql ,JS, JQuerry, Html, Angular, React, Reflux or something. Questions on things other than you own tech stack.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Cognizant (Guadalajara, Jalisco) en oct. 2025
Entretien
I did 3 rounds of interview, each of them technical, I managed to get to the client, the client were the only one who noticed that I wasn't a support engineer (I didn't apply to that position either, apparently somebody switched me in the middle of the process)
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Cognizant (Bengaluru) en oct. 2025
Entretien
The interview process included an initial HR screening followed by a technical assessment to test my Java skills. After that, I had one or two rounds of technical interviews focusing on coding, problem-solving, and frameworks like Spring Boot. Finally, there was a managerial round to discuss project experience and team collaboration.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
They asked me to explain the difference between an abstract class and an interface in Java.
J'ai postulé en personne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Cognizant (Cluj-Napoca)
Entretien
Basic knowledge assesment of java 1.8+
Spring aop, di, mvc, transactions
, resilience (circuit breakers),
Rest APIs
Badic sql
Basic knowledge of docker/kubernetes
Solid, acid, cap
The interviewers are not that consistent, there is a good degree on personal biases based, not all the areas are covered.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Explaining basic principles of what is described above.