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Updated 4 Mar 2025

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 & Answers

user image ponthota viswanath reddy

posted on 5 Dec 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic iOS interview questions.
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Advanced iOS interview questions, Design pattens.

Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Why would you like to join and general HR discussion.
Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Apr 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Core Java Questions like threading, exception handling,wrapper class, Collections
  • Q2. Reading Excel Sheet
  • Q3. Convert int to String
  • Ans. 

    Use the toString() method to convert an int to a String in Java.

    • Use the toString() method of the Integer class to convert an int to a String.

    • Example: int num = 10; String str = Integer.toString(num);

    • Alternatively, you can also use String.valueOf() method to convert int to String.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Store few values in hashmap and remove particular value based on key
  • Ans. 

    Store and remove values in a hashmap based on keys

    • Create a hashmap to store key-value pairs

    • Use the put() method to store values in the hashmap

    • Use the remove() method to remove a particular value based on the key

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(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

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Senior Associate Interview Questions & Answers

user image Rajesh Kumar

posted on 19 Dec 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Assessment 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic of angular and .net core
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basics of angular .net core and sql
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Hana XSA depth knowledge

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 (14)

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 (2)

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in May 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How spring boot app starts
  • Ans. 

    A Spring Boot app starts by initializing the Spring ApplicationContext and then launching the embedded Tomcat server.

    • Spring Boot app starts by scanning for components annotated with @ComponentScan in the specified package and sub-packages.

    • The application context is then created by loading the beans defined in the configuration classes annotated with @Configuration.

    • Once the application context is initialized, the embedd...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. How spring boot is working behind , Bean Life cycle method
  • Ans. 

    Spring Boot uses Bean Life cycle methods to manage the creation and destruction of beans in the application context.

    • Spring container instantiates the bean by calling the default constructor or a static factory method.

    • Spring sets the bean properties and dependencies using setters or constructor injection.

    • If the bean implements InitializingBean interface, the afterPropertiesSet() method is called.

    • If the bean has init-met...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - HR 

(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

Get interview-ready with Top Cognizant Interview Questions

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Coding question in the hackerrank regarding string and collections including streams

Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Multiple java and Springboot questions
  • Q2. Microservices and cloud questions
  • Q3. Messaging queues specifically kafka
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary discussion
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. C# questions for interfaces and abstract classes
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Design pattern questions . SOLID principles explanation.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - NA
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Js coding question and react coding wuestion first round

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Last React hooks used

Senior Associate Interview Questions & Answers

user image Tarashankar Bakshi Gupta

posted on 30 May 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I applied via Walk-in

Round 1 - Technical 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Interface vs Abstract
  • Ans. 

    Interface defines a contract for classes to implement, while abstract class can have both abstract and concrete methods.

    • Interface can only have abstract methods and constants, while abstract class can have both abstract and concrete methods.

    • A class can implement multiple interfaces but can only inherit from one abstract class.

    • Interfaces are used to achieve multiple inheritance in Java, while abstract classes are used t...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Static Construtors
  • Q3. Singleton class
  • Q4. Access specifiers
  • Q5. Sql Transactions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Study all basic to intermediate questions.

Senior Associate Interview Questions & Answers

user image keerthana B

posted on 10 Sep 2024

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Dataflow bottlenecks
  • Q2. Bigquery architecture
  • Q3. Python coding test
  • Q4. Performance tuning techniques
  • Ans. 

    Performance tuning techniques involve optimizing code, database queries, and server configurations to improve system efficiency.

    • Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the code by profiling and analyzing performance metrics

    • Optimize database queries by using indexes, avoiding unnecessary joins, and limiting the amount of data retrieved

    • Fine-tune server configurations such as memory allocation, caching mechanisms, and threa...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Clustering and partitioning

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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, Professional Services and Troubleshooting.
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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