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Cognizant Senior Associate Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 13 Dec 2024

Top Cognizant Senior Associate Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. Application of Row_Number, Rank, and Dense Rank? Different stages of defects/Bugs? What are Schema objects? Different types of loads in ETL Testing? What is Junk Dimensio ...read more
  • Q2. 1. Different types of schemas 2. Different types of slowly changing dimensions with real time examples used in our previous projects 3. Layers of ETL Testing and question ...read more
  • Q3. How to solve the problem if your team mate is underperforming
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Senior Associate Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 20 Aug 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jul 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (5 Questions)

  • Q1. Since I'm from network security background,all questions were related to firewall like how NAT works, DDoS protection, Packet flow of firewall
  • Q2. Some scenario based questions like how would you manage the critical outage
  • Q3. Dynamic routing questions OSPF and EIGRP
  • Q4. Switching questions On STP and Vlan and inter vlan routing
  • Q5. SSLhandshakeand certificat

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Please be prepared what you've mentioned on your resume.

Senior Associate Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 13 Jun 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

One-on-one Round (8 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself.
  • Q2. What is Your Strength ?
  • Q3. Condition Based Questions 5 to 7
  • Q4. 3-4 Back ground related Application and Navigation based questions.
  • Q5. How you will rate yourself?
  • Q6. 2-3 Team work and team members response based questions.
  • Q7. Why you want to join this organisation?
  • Q8. Why are you leaving your organisation.?
2

HR Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. Background related questions 4-5
  • Q2. Salary related questions
  • Q3. Location related

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well about Your technology and Strength.
Be confident
Be yourself
Try to pull interviewers attention towards you prepared well.
Most of the time interviewers never asked from his pocket, they grab the points from what you spoke.
Be to the point
(Little brief and little descriptives.)
If you are not so confident, try to be near about with your confidence.
Don't think him or try to make him/her fool.

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Senior Associate Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 20 Jul 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Typical studio implementation that you worked on?
  • Q2. PICOF or PECI which is recommendable
2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why are you looking for job change
  • Q2. What is the life cycle of an implementation project
3

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Where do you see yourself in 3 years
  • Q2. Will you be able to work night shifts

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident and calm

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Senior Associate Interview Questions

user image Chaitanya C

posted on 1 Nov 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about your self
  • Q2. Explain automation framework

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 (2)

Senior Associate Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 7 Jun 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Job Fair and was interviewed in May 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (9 Questions)

  • Q1. What are hooks ?
  • Q2. Explain Project Structure
  • Q3. Explain redux flow
  • Q4. What are promises and callback hell
  • Q5. Some scenario based questions as well
  • Q6. Find second largest element in an array
  • Q7. [1001,1100,1011] --> remove zeros from array
  • Q8. React testing library questions
  • Q9. How to override MUI classes

Skills evaluated in this interview

Senior Associate Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 24 Sep 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Java 8 stream api based question , find the duplicates characters in String
  • Q2. Microservices Design patterns

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - just do prepare the frequently asked interview questions and that's all.

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Senior Associate Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 10 Aug 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

I applied via Naukri.com

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell about what you have worked on recently
  • Q2. Technical questions from the recent projwct only
2

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What are your salary epectations
  • Q2. What is your current ctc

Senior Associate Interview Questions

user image ponthota viswanath reddy

posted on 5 Dec 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic iOS interview questions.
2

Coding Test Round

Advanced iOS interview questions, Design pattens.

3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Why would you like to join and general HR discussion.

Senior Associate Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 14 May 2024

Interview experience
1
 Bad
Difficulty level
 Easy
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Apr 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Core Java Questions like threading, exception handling,wrapper class, Collections
  • Q2. Reading Excel Sheet
  • Q3. Convert int to String
  • Q4. Store few values in hashmap and remove particular value based on key
2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Selenium and CICD

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Dont play with candidate's Emotions.Properly track the applicants. Before sending intwrview invite , clearly know the expected CTC.if the expected CTC not meets your grid level, please dont schedule intwrview

Skills evaluated in this interview

Senior Associate Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 7 Jun 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in May 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. How spring boot app starts
  • Q2. How spring boot is working behind , Bean Life cycle method
2

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Current CTC and expected , LWD ,
  • Q2. Why Leaving current org

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just go for it be cool , if u dont know say u dont know , this reduces the stress in both sides

Skills evaluated in this interview

Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Senior Associate interview?
Cognizant interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process are Technical, HR and Resume Shortlist.
How to prepare for Cognizant Senior Associate 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 Project Planning, Project Management, SQL, Requirement Gathering and Knowledge Management.
What are the top questions asked in Cognizant Senior Associate interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Cognizant Senior Associate interview -

  1. Application of Row_Number, Rank, and Dense Rank? Different stages of defects/Bu...read more
  2. 1. Different types of schemas 2. Different types of slowly changing dimensions...read more
  3. How to solve the problem if your team mate is underperform...read more
How long is the Cognizant Senior Associate interview process?

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

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  • Technical Round 2
  • HR Round
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