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Cognizant Technical Project Manager Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 29 Nov 2024

Cognizant Technical Project Manager Interview Experiences

3 interviews found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
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Round 1 - One-on-one 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Relevant to your project experience and technology
  • Q2. Technical round
  • Q3. Job related and project worked based questions
Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Mostly salary discussed

Technical Project Manager Interview Questions & Answers

user image Mainak Chakraborty

posted on 14 Dec 2023

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jun 2023. 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 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical questions from .Net, Angular, SQL Server.
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Problem solving round with questions from my technical areas.

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before May 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 tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Interview questions on Rules Engine,decision management RTDS , decision strategy manager etc, roles and responsibilities in previous projects.
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why you want to join cognizant
  • Q2. Discussion on destination

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Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. PL/SQL concepts,SDLC and performance tuning.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Please prepare all the PL/SQL concepts with performance tuning methods and some basic sql queries.

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed before May 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Singleton class, immutable class in java

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Everything depends on luck, all the best

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Mostly questions were asked from profile and your current role. Little deep knowledge on design patterns, program on arrays, spring core concepts, memory related questions like heap and stack memory uses, ...
  • Q2. Totally your full companies details in deep, all educational details in deep, even marks and gap related questions. Salary discussion but they offer usually less salary, lucky if u have other offers then u...

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Manager round
Experience: Customer oriented questions like how did u handle tough customer in ur career, what are the hurdles u faced. And some technical questions like why no sql db, what is design patterns used for..etc

I appeared for an interview before Jul 2016.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. All technical questions
  • Q2. Ssalary Negotiation, they will draw you down, from your expectation as uusally it happens

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: They will keep you waiting , I was almost last.
Tips: just wait at reception

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 3 people interviewed. One was manager, and other were Tech leads. They don't know anything they just show attitude.
Tips: Just be cool

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Formal questions will be asked, why you want to leave your current job, etc etc
Tips: Just stick to you ground

Skills: Technical Questions

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Aug 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. SQL backups, replication, clustering and AlwaysOn and performance optimization.
  • Ans. Should have knowledge of core DBA job and responsibilities.
  • Answered Anonymously

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confidant and should have grip on backup, restoration, replication, Clustering and Azure. The company uses latest technologies so be up-to-date in current technology.

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Nov 2017. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

  • Q1. This round has basic questions. Since my technology is Tibco BW. I was asked basic concepts and some scenario based questions. The interviewer was soft spoken and my interview took around 45 minutes.Exampl...
  • Q2. 2) Given a scenario, that you have to create an http service which sends a data from database which is large, how can we achieve that.. ? Can we send it in chunks, if yes how ?
  • Ans. 

    We can achieve this by sending the data in chunks using pagination.

    • Implement pagination to limit the amount of data sent per request.

    • Use a cursor-based pagination approach to efficiently retrieve large amounts of data.

    • Consider compressing the data to reduce the size of each chunk.

    • Use HTTP range requests to retrieve specific chunks of data.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. 3) how to achieve load balance and fault tolerance while deploying an application ?
  • Ans. 

    To achieve load balance and fault tolerance while deploying an application, we can use techniques like load balancing, clustering, and redundancy.

    • Implement load balancing to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers.

    • Use clustering to group multiple servers together to work as a single unit.

    • Ensure redundancy by having multiple instances of critical components to handle failures.

    • Implement fault-tolerant mechani...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. 4) Difference between shared and job shared variable ?
  • Ans. 

    Shared variables are accessible by all tasks in a process, while job shared variables are only accessible by tasks in a specific job.

    • Shared variables are used to share data between tasks in a process.

    • Job shared variables are used to share data between tasks in a specific job.

    • Shared variables can cause race conditions and should be used with caution.

    • Job shared variables are useful for passing data between tasks in a job

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. 5) what all db activities can be part of transaction group ?
  • Ans. 

    DB activities that can be part of a transaction group

    • Insertion of data into a table

    • Updating data in a table

    • Deletion of data from a table

    • Creating or dropping a table

    • Altering the structure of a table

    • Executing stored procedures

    • Executing functions

    • Executing triggers

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. This is majorly your salary discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

General Tips: You have to be patient and calm. If you do not know anything say you do not know.
Mostly you are through once your technical round is clear.
Skills: tibco
Duration: 1-3 Months

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed in Oct 2019. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. I was interviewed related to infrastructure migration from on premise environment to cloud service models. More on UNIX to Linux migrations.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Interviewers were polite and had good understanding about Thier requirement . They were more stuck on different approaches that can be adopted for migration process and were concerned on the challanges faced during migrations.

Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Technical Project Manager interview?
Cognizant interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process are Technical, Resume Shortlist and HR.
How to prepare for Cognizant Technical Project Manager 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 JIRA, AWS, Cloud, Communication Skills and Java.
What are the top questions asked in Cognizant Technical Project Manager interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Cognizant Technical Project Manager interview -

  1. Interview questions on Rules Engine,decision management RTDS , decision strateg...read more
  2. Technical questions from .Net, Angular, SQL Serv...read more
  3. Problem solving round with questions from my technical are...read more

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