300+ Cognizant GenC Interview Questions & Answers | Complete Prep Guide 2025

Cognizant GenC Interview Experiences

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GenC Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 11 Apr 2023

Interview experience

Good

Difficulty level

Moderate

Process Duration

2-4 weeks

Result

Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Oct 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist

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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Round 2 - Aptitude Test

It was quite easy when compare to hexaware,virtusa.

Round 3 - English

(1 Question)

Q1. Easy. Basic english is enough.

Add your answer

Round 4 - Technical

(1 Question)

Q1. Basic c questions What is ui/ux What is aws What is Sql and some other basic ece questions.mostly from Dc,ec and mpmc

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well on your stream .

GenC Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 15 Nov 2022

Round 1 - Aptitude Test

Aptitude was quite easy, mostly time and distance, percentage

Round 2 - Technical

(2 Questions)

Q1. Basic questions on CS core subjects like data structures, c programming, operating systems and computer networks.

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Q2. Aptitude questions and logical questions

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare on simple coding questions
Learn data structures

GenC Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 22 Jan 2023

Interview experience

Average

Difficulty level

Moderate

Process Duration

Less than 2 weeks

Result

Not Selected

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

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist

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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Round 2 - Aptitude Test

3 sections-Numerical Ability,Verbal Ability,Logical Reasoning

Round 3 - Technical

(3 Questions)

Q1. Introduce yourself, asked questions from resume, preferred programming language, diff blw list and tuple

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Q2. Project, ready to relocate, why software as you are from civil background

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Q3. Libraries in python, coding question

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - If you mentioned programming language in your resume then prepare basic questions related to that language..if you don't know any language then they'll ask aptitude questions and simple questions about yourself

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GenC Interview Questions & Answers

Swetha V

posted on 10 Dec 2024

Interview experience

Average

Difficulty level

Moderate

Process Duration

Less than 2 weeks

Result

Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Dec 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test

Quants,verabl,technical mcq

Round 2 - Technical

(2 Questions)

Q1. Oops based questions

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Q2. Coding questions

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GenC Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 16 Mar 2023

Interview experience

Poor

Difficulty level

Moderate

Process Duration

Less than 2 weeks

Result

No response

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Sep 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist

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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Round 2 - Aptitude Test

It was very easy and beginner level questions

Round 3 - One-on-one

(2 Questions)

Q1. Tell me about yourself

Add your answer

Q2. How do you know about this opportunity

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare well for HR questions, because they usually checks your mental stability than your skills

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GenC Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 17 Feb 2023

Interview experience

Good

Difficulty level

Moderate

Process Duration

Less than 2 weeks

Result

Selected

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

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist

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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Round 2 - Aptitude Test

Moderate, easily solvable, no coding questions

Round 3 - Technical

(2 Questions)

Q1. Moderate round, asked aptitude questions.

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Q2. Introduce yourself, tell something about you?

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare aptitude well and be confident in interview

GenC Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 10 Oct 2022

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

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist

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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Round 2 - Aptitude Test

Questions are easy to moderate

Round 3 - Technical

(2 Questions)

Q1. Just answer all the questions with confidence

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Q2. Tell me about yourself

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Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Cognizant GenC interview:

C
Java

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Before apply for a particular job role just go through the skills required to the applied job and add those skills in your resume

GenC Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 11 Oct 2022

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Sep 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist

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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Round 2 - Technical

(2 Questions)

Q1. Why do you want to join IT sector being a non -IT student.

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Q2. Introduce yourself and what are your hobbies

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - BE confident and be real so the interviewer gets impressed by you .
That's it.

GenC Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 15 Nov 2022

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist

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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Round 2 - Aptitude Test

Basic aptitude questions and english

Round 3 - Technical

(2 Questions)

Q1. Asked about project i have done Oops concepts Asked aptitude questions

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Q2. Asked aptitude questions

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare everything that u have mentioned in your resume and sometimes interviewer ask questions out of the box like he asked me questions on cyber security

GenC Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 26 Sep 2023

Interview experience

Good

Difficulty level

Easy

Process Duration

2-4 weeks

Result

Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Sep 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist

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.

View all Resume tips

Round 2 - Aptitude Test

It was a 3 hr long test which covered basic aptitiude and psuedocode questions

Round 3 - Technical

(1 Question)

Q1. The second round was a technical cum hr interview as i was a genC candidate it covered only basic aptitude questions and intoduction

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Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant GenC interview?

Cognizant interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process are Aptitude Test, Technical and Resume Shortlist.

How to prepare for Cognizant GenC interview?

Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Cognizant. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Cognizant expect are SAAS.

What are the top questions asked in Cognizant GenC interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Cognizant GenC interview -

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How long is the Cognizant GenC interview process?

The duration of Cognizant GenC interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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