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Updated 30 Oct 2022

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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Apr 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Prev job, exp on analytics, application of analytics, digital transformation
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Why cognizant, location pref, shifting from a non-it to it Industry, situation, strength and weakness

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep your confidence up, keep calm, to the point crisp answer

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I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Oct 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

  • Q1. What is the difference between UL and VUL
  • Ans. 

    UL and VUL are both types of life insurance policies, but VUL offers investment options while UL does not.

    • UL stands for Universal Life Insurance, which offers a fixed premium and death benefit but no investment options

    • VUL stands for Variable Universal Life Insurance, which offers investment options in addition to a flexible premium and death benefit

    • VUL policyholders can choose to invest in stocks, bonds, and mutual fun...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What are the Death Benefit Options?
  • Q3. What are the Non-forfeiture options?
  • Ans. 

    Non-forfeiture options are the choices available to a policyholder when they stop paying premiums.

    • Non-forfeiture options allow policyholders to retain some value from their policy even if they stop paying premiums.

    • Common non-forfeiture options include reduced paid-up insurance, extended term insurance, and cash surrender value.

    • Reduced paid-up insurance provides a smaller death benefit but does not require further premi...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. What is Reinsurance?
  • Ans. 

    Reinsurance is a process where an insurance company transfers a portion of its risk to another insurance company.

    • Reinsurance helps insurance companies manage their risk exposure.

    • It allows insurance companies to protect themselves against large losses.

    • Reinsurance can be either proportional or non-proportional.

    • Proportional reinsurance involves sharing both premiums and losses with the reinsurer.

    • Non-proportional reinsuran...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. What is an Underwriting?
  • Ans. 

    Underwriting is the process of evaluating and assessing the risk of insuring a person or entity.

    • Underwriting involves analyzing the potential risks and determining the appropriate premium to charge for insurance coverage.

    • It is commonly used in the insurance industry for various types of insurance policies such as life, health, and property insurance.

    • Underwriting also involves reviewing the applicant's financial and med...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Major differences between traditional life and whole life products?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - If you are attending an interview for the Insurance project, you will face most of the questions from the Insurance domain. So please be prepared.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Why you want to leave company.

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed before Jun 2021. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Group Discussion 

They give some topics related to present situation like in my GD in 2020 co. HR give topics related to that situation in our country like difference between offline education and online education system. and covid-19 pandemic related topics.

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me About your self ?
  • Q2. What do you know about this job position ?
  • Q3. What is your favourite colour ? Can i know the speciality of your favourite colour ?
  • Q4. Who inspired you to go to job daily and work hard ?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Your 1st impression is your resume nothing else then after you have some knowledge about your job position which you apply for and most important if you want only private job your english language will be excellent spoken as well as written.

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Mar 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Credit card domain
  • Q2. Previous work experience
  • Ans. 

    I have 3 years of experience as a Business Analyst in the finance industry.

    • Worked closely with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements

    • Conducted market research and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and risks

    • Created detailed reports and presentations to communicate findings and recommendations

    • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement process improvements

    • Utilized data analysis too...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Learn about the domain for which the interview, most questions from your experience

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Mar 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself?
  • Q2. Name, work ex, education, internships, hobbies etc

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident, should be good in communication

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before May 2021. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Total Experience asking about feasible interview date and time slot fixing
  • Ans. Explaining to HR about my over all experience and years of experince..
  • Answered Anonymously
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Asking questions from core experience
  • Ans. Answering them about Logistics,Reverse Logistics, Indirect Sourcing,Asset Management,3PL,Vendor and Supplier Management as i am from Supply chain Mangement Vertical
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Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Asking questions on real time scenario basis
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Asking questions from Management aspect
  • Q2. Answering all the answers promptly keeping positivity,logical thinking,
Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. HR related Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare on real time based scenarios
Basic concept must be strong and prompt answer required.possitive thinking &flexibility is must.

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before May 2021. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

They had ask the simple question during my interview process, here is the list if all questions:
1) what is df.copy()
2)why we choose inplace = True
3) Tfidf
4) confusion Matrix
5) can we use continuous variables for logistic regression
6)list and tuple diff
7)N grams, bag of words
8)access a column
9)lambda fn
10)method and object oops concepts
11) how to tackle Nan values
12) what is index in SQL
13)what is gini coefficient
14)when will you use linear regression and when you will use Decision Tres.
15) Random forest
16)Oops concepts
17)how to calculate the coefficient
18)PCA
19)SL/USL
20) classification/Regression
21)SVM
22)DT, RF, Hyper parameters in RF
23)how neural network works
24)NlP

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Power bi and Tableau tools- 1) cross filter

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Genpact Business Analyst interview:
  • Statistics
  • Oops
  • Pandas
  • Lambda
  • Memory error
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident about what you had done in your previous organization, they will ask any questions if you did a very little work on anything. Whatever the thing that you have on your CV make sure that you were involved from end to end on that project.

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Apr 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. What is the database ? How is it useful?
  • Ans. 

    A database is a collection of data that is organized in a way that allows for easy retrieval and manipulation.

    • Databases can store various types of data such as text, images, and videos.

    • They are useful for storing and managing large amounts of data.

    • Databases can be used for various purposes such as tracking inventory, managing customer information, and analyzing sales data.

    • Examples of popular databases include MySQL, Or

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be specific and true always

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed before Feb 2020. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Where you see yourself after 5 years

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just be confident whatever u say. This one thing is enough to get judge by interviewer

Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Business Development Associate interview?
Cognizant interview process usually has 3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process are Resume Shortlist, One-on-one Round and HR.

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