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Cognizant Software Engineer Trainee Interview Questions and Answers for Freshers

Updated 17 Aug 2023

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Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Numbers, Percentage, Profit and loss, Average, Ratio and proportion, Time and Work, Time speed distance.

2

One-on-one Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions from skills added in resume
  • Q2. Object oriented programming concept
  • Q3. Logic gates AND, OR, NOT
  • Q4. Questions from basic mathematics.
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Background verification
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Jun 2022.

3 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

(Maths Reasoning English) You have to start from the basic and then go to competitive level and also follow the previous trends of asking questions.

3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. I gave technical round approx 30 mins First they ask introduction. I have opted C, C++ and Java in my resume they only ask questions from first two languages an...read more

4 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

Aptitude Test Round

Easy to answer if you think peacefully

3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. They will ask questions on technical which are related to what you mention in self bio
4

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Just like interaction and .. questions about relocate and eger to learn new things on business requirement

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident and what ever say wrong or right with confidence
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via campus placement at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and was interviewed before Jun 2022.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Properly align and format text in your resume. A recruiter will have to spend more time reading poorly aligned text, leading to high chances of rejection.
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2

Aptitude Test Round

Everyday regular aptitude test

3

Coding Test Round

Coding test was easy but you have to be careful.

4

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions were based on SQL & JAVA
5

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Regular HR questions you hear everywhere.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just be calm, and looks for interview questions on internet and you are good to go. For me, the questions were pretty average as I was prepared.

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

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Jan 2022.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

First round is aptitude test in this the difficulty level of the questions are easy...you can solve it easily just focus on the questions what actually they asked.

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. In this round they asked about background..they asked what are your expertise..
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Hr round is the final round of selection...so basically in this round they just asked about your current location nd your preferred working location..

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just prepared yourself well... focused on your skills whatever skills you have just focused on it nd try to learn other skills also like atleast you have the basic knowledge of other skills too..

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

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - If you have low programming skills go for Gen C program.

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Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 -

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Feb 2023.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Assignment Round

Give one assignment to share my knowledge about software Testing in agile scrum framework using Jira and Bugjilla tools

2

Aptitude Test Round

Aptitude test is nothing but logical reasoning and straight forward answering

3

Group Discussion Round

Group discussion is the final round in the process of an interview it decides the knowledge of freshers

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Infosys Software Engineer Trainee interview:
  • Software Testing Life Cycle
  • Regression Testing
  • Writing Test Cases
  • Jira and Bugjilla
  • Defect Life Cycle
  • Project Management
  • Smoke nd sanity
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Good morning sir
Am Manisha finding jobs for software Testing with gap duration of more than 2 years
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 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.
View all tips
2

Aptitude Test Round

Please don't ignore aptitude test. Focus on mental ability & logical reasoning.

3

Coding Test Round

Coding problems in languages like java / C# & SQL etc.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - - Practice database questions & various ways of writing good queries.
- Practice logical / algo coding problems on any of your favorite languages like Java / C# / JS.
- Aptitude test is not too complicated, but preparation is must.

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The aptitude test was pretty easy. Basic logical reasoning, English proficiency and quantitative grasp were tested in the aptitude test.
Tips: Check out some of the aptitude tests that other websites provide for very well known and highly recruiting companies like tcs, capgemini, igate, Infosys etc.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The overall experience of this interview was good. If you know your basic coding fundamentals you'll get through it. The main focus of these people in this round was to see how far your knowledge goes and how well you respond to uncomfortable situations.
Tips: Be confident and straight forward about things you might not know about. Shooting in the dark will not here or anywhere else for that matter

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Well HR rounds are supposed to make you swear through your clothes and mine surely did that. After having me wait for 12 hours I finally got my HR interview which is the final round finished. The technical interview was finished in the afternoon itself but the hr round took hours to complete my turn. It was depressing
Tips: Be confident and radiant. They will check how much you've had to wait and how that has affected you. Don't lose hope. And don't give textbook answers to questions like strengths and weaknesses. Being frank really helps.

Skills: Willingness to learn , Communication skills
College Name: Dwarkadas Sanghvi College of Engineering

Skills evaluated in this interview

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: It was a written Test conducted by Merittrac. The Other option to conduct assessment test by Accenture is by AMCAT. But, this year Merittrac conducted the test in our college. The Verbal and Analytical sections were easy to answer but, the third section was a bit time consuming. You have to manage time well in this section. This section actually makes the difference.
900 Students applied for the job and 600 were shortlisted for the HR/Technical Round.
No Sectional cut-off and the time for each section is individually considered.

Tips: Attention to Detail Section makes the difference.
Verbal Concepts Tested : 8-9 Q on Reading Comprehension, 4 Q on Usage of articles, and Synonyms
Analytical : 4-5 Q on Venn Diagrams, 3 Q Seating Arrangements, 2-3 Q on Blood Relations
Attention to Detail : 4 Q on Odd pattern, Conditional Passages, etc

Duration: 60 min minutes
Total Questions: 55

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: This is a HR/Technical Interview round wherein 5 people at a time were tested by 2 Interviewers. We were tested on Skills from our Educational Background (Technical). and We are tested in many ways by the HR. He is a very observant and experienced guy. He tried to encourage us in some cases and also made fun of us. Overall performance of the person is considered and Only 276 out of 600 were finally shortlisted. I am fortunate to be one among the 276.
Tips: Accenture backs Girls by a great number. Almost 80% of the girls who have appeared are through.
Do not panic and brush on your Core Skills as well as basic Programming Skills
Prepare basic HR Questions and know what HR Observes in any Interview.

Skills: C Language, Core Courses Concepts
College Name: GITAM University, Visakhapatnam

Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Software Engineer Trainee interview for freshers?
Cognizant interview process for freshers usually has 4 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process for freshers are Resume Shortlist, Aptitude Test and Technical.
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