Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Cognizant (Bengaluru) nel mese di gen 2025
Colloquio
I applied thorough Naukari
Got a call from HR after 1 week
There were 2 rounds basically
First round Tech:
Got questions on OOPS, Memory management in Java, Comparable and Comparator, Collection Hierarchy, Internal working of HashMap,
1 coding question to sort List of emp using streams based on there empID
1 SQL query to find the second highest salary
Few Spring boot annotations like
@Component
@Autowired
@RestController
Questions on Actuator
Second round was HR:
HR discussed on my Notice period and salary details.
After 3 days i got selection mail
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Cognizant (Guadalajara, Jalisco) nel mese di ott 2025
Colloquio
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)
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Cognizant (Bengaluru) nel mese di ott 2025
Colloquio
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.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
They asked me to explain the difference between an abstract class and an interface in Java.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura di persona. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Cognizant (Cluj-Napoca)
Colloquio
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.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Explaining basic principles of what is described above.