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Cognizant GenC Next Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 4 Dec 2024

Top Cognizant GenC Next Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. Pair Sum You are given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' and an integer 'S'. Your task is to return the list of all pairs of elements such that each sum of elements of e ...read more
  • Q2. Minimum steps to reach target by a Knight You have been given a square chessboard of size ‘N x N’. The position coordinates of the Knight and the position coordinates of ...read more
  • Q3. Ways To Make Coin Change You are given an infinite supply of coins of each of denominations D = {D0, D1, D2, D3, ...... Dn-1}. You need to figure out the total number of ...read more
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GenC Next Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 4 Dec 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 6-8 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Nov 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic questions related to python, data types, and other basic definitions.
  • Q2. Mini coding round including reverse string, max element in list, (Some people were asked to code sorting algos too according to my knowledge).
  • Q3. SQL basics, normalisation and coding related to joins, group by
  • Q4. Resume Projects explanation

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be clear with the basics and your projects, don't really need to deep dive into any particular domain and keep your DSA concepts clear.

GenC Next Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 24 May 2022

I was interviewed in Nov 2022.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

2 Coding questions

  • Q1. Pair Sum You are given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' and an integer 'S'. Your task is to return the list of all pairs of elements s...read more
  • Q2. Maximum Product Subarray You are given an array “arr'' of integers. Your task is to find the contiguous subarray within the array which has the largest...read more
2

HR Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Few Aptitude questions were asked and few questions on Project were also asked

  • Q1. Puzzle

    Two Dice Are Thrown Together Then The Probability That The Sum Of Numbers Appearing On Them Is A Prime Number Is?

  • Q2. Project Based Question

    I was asked to explain my Project and what problems i faced while making that?

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteria7Cognizant interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - DSA , OOPS , OS, CN, Algorithms, DBMS , Dynamic Programming , GraphsTime required to prepare for the interview - 5 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Improve Communication Skills
Tip 2 : Do Extra Subjects
Tip 3 : Prepare some Projects

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Do Mention coding profiles in resume
Tip 2 : Do add summary of Projects

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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GenC Next Interview Questions

user image Vempati Jaya shankar

posted on 10 Jan 2023

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 More than 8 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jul 2022.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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2

Aptitude Test Round

One one question form all the chapters

3

Coding Test Round

There was a two coding questions

4

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. About opps concepts, About basic java to Advanced Java, MySql
5

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself Why should I hire you Where are you from? Tell me about your favourite sport About your family

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Finally my advice is cover all topics in java, SQL from basic to intermidiate level and focus on communication skills
All the best👍

GenC Next Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 24 May 2022

I was interviewed in Nov 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 120 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

MCQs- Aptitude + Quantitative 
2 questions came in coding round

  • Q1. Rat In a Maze All Paths You are given a 'N' * 'N' maze with a rat placed at 'MAZE[0][0]'. Find and print all paths that rat can follow t...read more
  • Q2. Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array You are given a sorted integer array' ARR' of size 'N'. You need to remove the duplicates from the array suc...read more
2

Face to Face Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Basic Hr Questions were asked. I was also asked about some questions from DS algo + from my projects. I was also asked questions from DBMS

  • Q1. Quick Sort You are given an array of integers. You need to sort the array in ascending order using quick sort. Quick sort is a divide and conquer algorithm in w...read more
  • Q2. Puzzle

    Traveling at 3/4th of the original Speed a train is 10 minutes late. Find the usual Time taken by the train to complete the journey?

  • Q3. Puzzle Two water tanks contain 250 and 400 litres of water respectively. What will be the maximum capacity of a bucket that can exactly measure the water in the...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteria6.5 CGPACognizant interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, DBMS , OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming.Time required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 - Practice At least 250 Questions of DS algo
Tip 2 - Do at least 2 application based projects
Tip 3 - Practice questions with optimized approaches

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have some application based projects on resume.
Tip 2 : Do not put false things on resume.
Tip 3 : Project should clear and crisp

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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GenC Next Interview Questions

user image PrepInsta

posted on 17 Dec 2021

I applied via campus placement at Anna University and was interviewed in Sep 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Skill Based Assessment Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 180 minutes
This Round consisted of 30 MCQs from various topics like OOPS,JAVA,HTML,CSS,PL/SQL, Operating Systems, DBMS.
After MCQs, there were 4 coding questions and 2 SQL questions.
The difficulty of the first 2 questions was easy and that of 3rd and 4rth was medium.
These questions were from various programming topics such as greedy, dynamic programming, graphs etc.
The entire test duration was 3 hours.

  • Q1. One dynamic Programming question One Greedy algorithm question One based on graphs
2

Technical Round (10 Questions)

They asked me coding questions and questions about my project. Since most of my projects were based on Machine Learning, they asked a few ML based question as well.

  • Q1. Write a program to perform Binary search on an array of N numbers.
  • Q2. Write a program to perform Merge sort on an array of N numbers.
  • Q3. Explain all the stages of creating a machine learning model on a given dataset
  • Q4. What are the different regularization techniques?
  • Q5. What is poison distribution?
  • Q6. What is the formula for gradient descent?
  • Q7. Explain any clustering algorithm.
  • Q8. What is PCA?
  • Q9. What is virtual DOM and why ReactJS uses it?
  • Q10. What are the bounding methods in React? Difference between Class Component and Functional Component in ReactJS?
3

HR Round (4 Questions)

This was more of a document verification round.

  • Q1. Tell me about Yourself
  • Q2. What are your hobbies?
  • Q3. Tell me about your struggles to win your first hackathon (mentioned in my resume)
  • Q4. What is your favourite technology?

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundAt the time of the interview, I had 0 Years (fresher) of experience. My academic qualification is B.E from Anna University.Cognizant interview preparation:Tips for other job seekers - Practise coding continuously for 2 months before the interview to ace any coding round.
Be Well prepared in all the topics mentioned in your resume.Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

GenC Next Interview Questions

user image Lokesh Singh

posted on 17 Feb 2022

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Coding test includes 4 programming questions(2 easy 2 moderate) and 2 sql questions(1 easy 1 moderate).

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Question on projects and mentioned skills
  • Q2. Question on data structures and algorithms
3

HR Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
  • Q2. What is your family background?
  • Q3. Tell me about yourself.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep your CV honest and try to get good grasp on DSA, you will easily crack it.

GenC Next Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 31 Aug 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jul 2021.

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. First of all, Interviewer asked me to introduce myself. Add Answer
  • Q2. Then he asked me to explain my project after which the following questions were asked : Add Answer
  • Q3. What all technologies are used in your project and what else have you worked in? View Answers (1)
  • Q4. Since I mentioned java in my resume he asked me a lot of questions about the java concept which include oops, exception handling, final keyword. Add Answer
  • Q5. About DBMS he asked for joins, triggers, cursors and asked me two queries. Add Answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Projects play a very important role in this interview and you should know all the details of your project and the technologies used in it including the workflow of your project.

GenC Next Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 29 Sep 2021

I applied via campus placement at Shri Vidyanikethan Engineering College, Tirupati and was interviewed in Aug 2021.

1 Interview Round

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Introduce your self? what is python? what are various areas where python use? what are sequence data structures and difference between tuple and list? asked me ...read more Add Answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't laugh at this tip but it always worked out for me.
Don't answer questions in a single line or single word .Try to expand your answer for above 30 seconds try to tell examples and one or two facts extra .I can say eat time so interviewer wont get time to ask too many questions at the same time he will get impressed your explaining skills .
Another technique I use as i mentioned above tell one or two facts introduce a keyword or new hint for him to ask question on that. For example when the interviewer asked me about polymorphism i my self mentioned there are different types then he asked what are that types then in mentioned virtual function in my answer then he asked what is virtual function. They wont come prepared with a list of questions to ask .So it depends a lot how you end the before answer
BEST OF LUCK!!!!!

GenC Next Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 24 Mar 2023

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via campus placement at UEM Kolkata and was interviewed before Mar 2022.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Write a program to reverse your name.
  • Q2. Oops related questions. Like what is polymorphism,data abstraction etc.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare topics like OOPS,DBMS, SQL. Basic programming knowledge or problem solving skills. Dsa is not mandatory but basic data structures like stack, queue binary tree graph would be helpful ( totally depends on interviewer). Should have clear knowledge about college project. Don't lie on resume or else you will get wrecked.

GenC Next Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 16 Oct 2021

I applied via campus placement at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore and was interviewed in Sep 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Asked to code 2 programming question in the language of choice and was asked to write sql queries for 4 aggregate functions. Add Answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be prepared with basic dsa
Have good knowledge on sql aggregate functions.

Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant GenC Next interview?
Cognizant interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process are Technical, Coding Test and HR.
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