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Cognizant Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 14 Dec 2024

Top Cognizant Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. What are custom hooks in React, and what are their use cases? Additionally, can you provide an example of a custom hook that performs an API call and utilizes the retriev ...read more
  • Q2. If I have assigned different colors to an ID and a class and applied both to the same element, which color will be applied based on CSS specificity precedence?
  • Q3. What will be the output of the following JavaScript code fragment: `const a; function test() { console.log(a); }; test();`?
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Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image Bhutharaju G

posted on 2 May 2023

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is oracle database architecture
  • Q2. Explain about exadata

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
2
 Poor
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
Selected  Selected

4 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Initial basic JS questions.
3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Advanced JS questions.
4

Coding Test Round

JS coding with client. Was asked to code 3 questions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well on JS questions if you are appearing for mean stack role.

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

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before May 2023.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Printing 1 to 20 number without using any loop.
  • Q2. What techniques you use to optimise your application/code
2

Technical Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. In which scenario you use documents based database over SQL based database and why ??
  • Q2. What's is uses of cache memory in application and which cache you used in your application and why ??
  • Q3. Filter top 3 student from each class based on their marks. From 100 students list

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Average interview basic understanding about your system and java will help u to crack it.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image Mubarak Adeshina

posted on 22 Aug 2024

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

I was interviewed before Aug 2023.

2 Interview Rounds

1

HR Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell us about yourself
  • Q2. Explain OOp concerts
  • Q3. What is dependency injection
2

Coding Test Round

Find the palindrome given an array of words

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Mar 2023.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Question mostly related to current project and javascript
  • Q2. How js engine works
  • Q3. React higher order component
  • Q4. Pure component in react

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well . It’s easy to get selected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Feb 2022.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Angular architecture and it's components
2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Core Java Basics + JAVA-8 functionalities
  • Q2. Collection + Threads + basic SQL Queries
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Job location requirement

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Cognizant Senior Software Engineer interview:
  • Core Java
  • Springboot
  • Angular
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Whatever tech stack you are looking for make sure you should have in-depth knowledge related to that

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Jan 2022.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What are types of flow?
  • Q2. What deployment tools you have used?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just try to check all the basics, it will help in the interview.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Dec 2021.

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident, the first 5 minutes are crucial, an interviewer typically makes a decision to move forward with the candidate or not within first 5 minutes.
Have a good grasp on the language, typically all the corporates now prefer english, which must be perfected. Reading news papers are good ways to improve upon any language.
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Job Fair and was interviewed before Oct 2022.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Aptitude test on verbal, reasoning,logical and numerical skills

2

Group Discussion Round

Group discussion topic was given

3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical questions was asked on my engineering subjects
4

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical questions were asked
5

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Hr round to discuss on the job role and salary discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - NA

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. 1.About yourself 2. Union functionality in IICS, process to load the tables. 3.Json & XML file data load implementation 4.to load flat file data, single & multi...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident on what ever you know, post interview workout on less confident topics.Be ready for next one until get it. All the best.

Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Senior Software Engineer interview?
Cognizant interview process usually has 1-2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process are Technical, Resume Shortlist and Coding Test.
How to prepare for Cognizant Senior Software Engineer 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 Java, Software Engineering, Spring Boot, Core Java and Microservices.
What are the top questions asked in Cognizant Senior Software Engineer interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Cognizant Senior Software Engineer interview -

  1. What are custom hooks in React, and what are their use cases? Additionally, can...read more
  2. If I have assigned different colors to an ID and a class and applied both to th...read more
  3. What will be the output of the following JavaScript code fragment: `const a; fu...read more
How long is the Cognizant Senior Software Engineer interview process?

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

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